Reena Ninan

Reena Ninan (born April 18, 1979) is an Indian American television journalist who works for the national mainstream media. She currently works for CNN as the Veteran Foreign Affairs Correspondent.^[2][3] Ms. Ninan is also the founder of her news company Good Trouble Productions & a bodybuilder.^[4][5]

Ms. Ninan was valedictorian at C. Leon King High School in Tampa, FL in 1997 in her class of 576 graduates.^[6]

Reena earned a bachelor’s degree in political communication with a minor in women’s studies from The George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs in 2001.^[7] Reena delivered a message to George Washington University graduates in 2020 via Facebook.^[8]

Ms. Ninan began her career as a producer at the Washington Post and a freelancer for BET & ABC News.

From 2004 to 2012, she reported for Fox News Channel, becoming Fox News' Middle East Correspondent in 2007 until she left the network in 2012. She has reported from throughout the world, including Libya, Indonesia, India, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq during the Iraq War. In 2009, Reena was hit with tear gas in a West Bank village in Jerusalem while covering protests.^[9] In July 2011, she was named one of Glamour magazine's "Women on the Front Lines."

Reena was staying at Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq when it was truck bombed on October 25th, 2005. Reena went live at the hotel on Fox News in less than 3 minutes. The wall was missing from her hotel room as a result of the blasts. Ms. Ninan went unharmed.^[10][11]

From 2012-2015, Ms. Ninan worked at ABC News. Ninan began working at ABC News in 2012 in the Washington bureau, where she covered the White House and the State Department. She later moved to New York, reporting for Good Morning America and continuing to travel abroad as a foreign correspondent.^[12][13][14] In April 2015, Ninan was named co-anchor of ABC's early morning shows World News Now and America This Morning, alongside T. J. Holmes.^[15]

From 2016-2020, Ms. Ninan worked at CBS News. She was also a solo anchor of CBSN with a reported salary of $2 million per year. She was the Saturday night anchor of the CBS Weekend News. She also reported for CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning & other CBS broadcasts.^[16][17][18]

In 2021, Reena hosted The Recount Daily Podcast for 20 minutes each morning.^[19]

From 2023-present, Ninan has been the Veteran Affairs Correspondent of CNN.^[20][21]

Ms. Ninan is a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations & currently works as a presider of their pubic forums.^[22][23]

Ninan is the founder & owner of Good Trouble Productions.^[24]

Ninan has hosted the Ask Lisa Podcast along with psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour to help with parenting tips since the summer of 2020.^[25][26]

Since December 2020, Darien TV79 has played reruns on Fridays of The Rebound, stories of how people made it out of their darkest moments to find the light.^[27]

Since 2021, Ms. Ninan has hosted a podcast called HERO: The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women partially funded by Foreign Policy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.^{[28][29][30][31]}

Reena announced on Ask Lisa Vodcast she had used the summer of 2023 to increase her protein intake to 120 grams per day. Reena later announced she had been weightlifting.^[32]

Ms. Briceno said "Ms. Ninan taking 120 grams of protein per day is giving her that full look." Ms. Reena Ninan was asked to be the celebrity ambassador of a bodybuilding show owned by International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation Pro female bodybuilder Tivisay Briceno on Clearwater Beach, FL on November 23rd, 2024.^[33]

Ninan is married to author and former Newsweek reporter Kevin Peraino. They have two children.^[34][12][35]

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