Rob Picheta is an Enterprise Writer for CNN, where he produces in-depth features for the network’s global digital audience. His work focuses on the people, movements and ideologies shaping — and sometimes shaking — American society. He’s particularly interested in politics, extremism, technology, and the intersection of culture, community and policy.

Picheta was previously an international reporter for CNN, based in the network’s London bureau. He helped lead digital coverage of some of the most important and complex global stories in recent times and was a key contributor to CNN’s breaking-news reporting of several historic moments, from the death of Queen Elizabeth II to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the election of the first American Pope.

Picheta helped guide CNN’s coverage through a whirlwind global news cycle, writing lead stories, live blogs, explainers, analysis pieces and features during six years on the international news team. He reported from Downing Street and Westminster as part of Britain’s parliamentary press pack, covering an extraordinary era of upheaval in British politics. Picheta interviewed prime ministers, cabinet members and power brokers in London, while covering the premierships of five British leaders and filing comprehensive coverage of two general election campaigns.

His reporting contributed to two of CNN’s Emmy Awards for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage and was nominated for a third. Picheta also was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for reporting on Poland’s so-called “LGBT-free” zones in 2020. He has served on journalism award juries and delivered guest lectures at universities in the UK and the US.

Picheta has been deployed across Europe to gather on-the-ground reporting on pivotal trends in the region. He has reported from a far-right rally on the Polish-Ukrainian border, from massive street protests in London, from the left-behind towns in England that determined the Brexit vote and the subsequent fall of the Conservative era, and from the Eurovision Song Contest, where he memorably interviewed a Finnish contestant in a sauna.

Picheta grew up in London. He has a master’s degree in journalism from City University and an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Warwick, during which he spent one year in Melbourne, Australia. He joined CNN in 2018.