Christina Zdanowicz

Webit Speaker, Senior Producer CNN

Christina Zdanowicz is a Senior Producer at CNN. Her expertise lies in online storytelling, breaking news, user-generated content and finding great stories. She is a leader at CNN Digital and manages the hectic evening shift for the Social Discovery Team, the network's hub for social media newsgathering. Assigning, writing and editing stories, verifying user-generated content and making tough editorial decisions are all part of what she does. Her role involves identifying trending topics and social conversations around CNN's top news priorities, as well as curating content for a social and digital audience. The highlight of her day is mentoring interns, whom she recruits, hires and supervises. They've gone on to full-time jobs at CNN, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, NPR and The Wall Street Journal.

Her leadership skills were recognized in 2018 when she was chosen to be part of Poynter's Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. Over the last 11 years, she has held various roles at CNN. Before that, she worked for the Chicago Tribune, CBS 2 Chicago and COSMOS, an Australian science magazine.