Yaffa Fredrick ’11

Senior Editor for CNN Digital

Yaffa Fredrick, a multimedia journalist, is the senior political commentary editor for CNN Digital, where she oversees the commissioning and production of the site’s domestic and international news commentary. She previously was the managing editor of World Policy Journal, a quarterly foreign affairs magazine and daily news site. During her time at WPJ, she reported from over a dozen countries across five continents. In addition, Fredrick has produced original broadcast and print stories for PBS, MTV, the New York Times and the African Network on Centers for Investigative Reporting. In 2017, Fredrick was a part of the Panama Papers team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She is a member of the Overseas Press Club, the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Fredrick formally led the Global Shapers, a New York chapter of the World Economic Forum. She graduated Wellesley College magna cum laude with degrees in Political Science and Cinema and Media Studies in 2011. Though far from a linguist, Fredrick speaks Hebrew and is currently endeavoring to learn enough Italian to plan her wedding in Sicily later this year.