Cassandra Vinograd is an award-winning journalist with more than a decade's experience at the world's leading news organizations.She started with the Associated Press in West Africa. As an editor with The Wall Street Journal in Brussels and then London, she ran the daytime digital newsdesk and covered a few coups in her spare time. After a trans... Read More

Cassandra Vinograd is an award-winning journalist with more than a decade's experience at the world's leading news organizations.She started with the Associated Press in West Africa. As an editor with The Wall Street Journal in Brussels and then London, she ran the daytime digital newsdesk and covered a few coups in her spare time. After a transition to the AP's London bureau, Vinograd focused on foreign affairs, politics and defense -- plus all things royal wedding. She rounded out her time at AP with a stint overseeing the Kabul bureau before moving to NBC News as a senior writer and editor, specializing in terrorism and foreign policy. That took her to Paris, Brussels and Nice to report on terror attacks, central Africa to take a close look at the scourge of Boko Haram, and across Europe to cover the refugee crisis for all media platforms.Vinograd has reported extensively on ISIS, from its use of child soldiers to a global exclusive on the first American killed fighting for the group. In 2014, she was part of the NBC team which won a Peabody Award for ISIS coverage. She won a 2016 Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for coverage of the Brussels terror attacks with her team at NBC.Since going freelance in 2016, her work has appeared in and on The Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, Foreign Policy, the “Today” show, HBO's "Vice News Tonight," Al Jazeera English and more. She has twice been awarded grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for work in South Sudan and the Central African Republic.Vinograd – who is HEFAT trained and certified – is also a member of the Frontline Freelance Register, Overseas Press Club and SPJ. She is available for commissions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (print, digital, photojournalism, broadcast producer, field producer). Read Less