Melissa Bell - Biography & Images
Melissa Bell is a correspondent for CNN based in the Paris bureau.
Bell joined CNN in October 2016 from France 24, where she was a political editor before being promoted to international affairs editor and correspondent.
She has extensive knowledge of Africa and the Arab world and has covered most major news story for the network’s French and English-speaking channels, from the Haitian earthquake to Egyptian revolution and the war in Mali.
Beginning her career as a journalist in 1996, Bell worked for news wires before joining Granada Television in Manchester in 1999.
She then moved to the BBC as a political reporter, where she covered Westminster for seven years.
Bell has a degree in politics from Warwick University and speaks French and English fluently.
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