Paula Zahn

Biography

Paula Zahn is anchor for CNN's weeknight primetime evening program, Live from the Headlines. Based in the network's New York bureau, Zahn also hosts People in the News, CNN's feature-format program with PEOPLE magazine profiling newsmakers from politics, sports, business, medicine and entertainment. Previously, Zahn anchored the network's flagship morning news program, American Morning with Paula Zahn, which she helped launch in fall 2001. In 2003, Zahn anchored and provided the latest news on Operation Iraqi Freedom, interviewing multiple guests, including family members of troops, diplomats, Iraqi-Americans and politicians. On her first day with CNN, Zahn began continuous on-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York. In the course of that reporting, she interviewed multiple rescue workers, survivors, dignitaries and officials, including Jordans King Abdullah, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, N.Y. Gov. George Pataki, former U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, to name a few.