Frida Ghitis, WPR’s senior columnist, is a world affairs analyst and opinion writer. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is currently a weekly contributor to CNN Opinion and regular on-air analyst and commentator on CNNE and other CNN networks, as well as a Washington Post contributing columnist. Her WPR column appears every Thursday. You can follow her on Twitter and Threads @FridaGhitis.
Frida started her career at CNN, where she worked initially as a show producer, a unit manager for major news operations and later as a producer and correspondent covering mostly international news.
Her work has appeared in scores of publications across the globe, in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America and is a speaker at international events on global conflict, foreign relations and human rights.
She has worked in more than 70 countries, covering major global events. She was in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed, in Baghdad, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during wars in that region, in Bosnia, Kosovo, and other hot spots during times of world-changing conflict. Frida has reported from the Amazon jungle, from the killing fields of Cambodia, from the Arctic Circle, Tibet, Cuba and Saudi Arabia and countless points in between. She is the author of “The End of Revolution: a Changing World in the Age of Live Television.”
