Nina dos santos biography

Nina dos Santos has covered some of the biggest stories of recent times and reported extensively from around the world:  

from Davos to Dubai, Westminster to Washington and as far afield as Kyiv and Kazakhstan.

Based in London, Nina has been a television anchor for Bloomberg, a presenter for Sky News and a weekend correspondent for NBC News.

In 2012 she joined CNN where she stayed for more than a decade to anchor her own, daily business and current affairs show. During her time with the network she also undertook investigations into terrorism, Russian poisonings, Chinese espionage and money laundering.

 Nina has twice won the Alfred duPont Award from Columbia University and she has also been shortlisted for a GLAAD and an Emmy.

Nina read Biology at Imperial College London and speaks six languages.

nina dos santos cv

The Times, Times Radio & The Independent

Freelance Writer and Commentator

Monocle Radio & Magazine

Contributor to Monocle magazine and radio

Anchor, Correspondent & Europe Editor

Freelance Correspondent for Nightly News & Weekend Today

Business Presenter & General Newsreader 

Bloomberg Television, London

Newswires Reporter & later TV Anchor

Dow Jones & Wall Street Journal, Milan & Rome

Financial Times Group, London

Work experience during university - personal finance publications


Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences 

Bocconi University, Milan

Master of Science in Economics & Management of Healthcare systerms

Padua University, Padua, Italy

Erasmus year to study abroad

Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle, London

Educated in French from the age of 5 years old

A Levels: Biology, Chemistry, German & French  (A,A,B,B)


Final Cut Pro,  Adobe Premiere Pro, Riverside

CMS - Proficient in the use of

"No longer can a news outlet’s name guarantee the audience will come and stay"

Credit: Frank Noon / Mousetrap Media


This article is adapted from Nina dos Santos' closing keynote speech at our flagship conference Newsrewired that took place yesterday.

I am a journalist through and through. I have spent more than a decade as a CNN anchor and worked for many of the other trusted news brands over my 20-plus years in the industry.

But given the talks heard at the Newsrewired conference, I confess I am both worried for the future and comforted that such clever people are still trying to get to grips with a question that has dogged our craft during my whole career: "How to make money from our work".

There was an impassioned debate on whether to embrace AI or not. To sell or to sue, that is indeed the question.

We were elucidated on changing viewer habits online: a trend going only in one direction as we know - largely away from the legacy media it seems and at a faster pace.

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