Amara Walker Will get Co-Anchor Duties for CNN’s Weekend Mornings

Amara Walker, a CNN correspondent, will co-anchor the cable-news outlet’s weekend morning program, presently often called “New Day,” filling a job left vacant in June when Christi Paul determined to depart the community.

Walker, who joined CNN in 2012, will work alongside co-anchor Boris Sanchez. The 2 can even anchor CNN’s 10 a.m. hour on Saturdays. She shall be primarily based in CNN’s Atlanta studio. The present “New Day” airs Saturdays between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and Sundays between 6 a.m. and eight a.m. CNN has introduced plans to relaunch morning programming later this yr and the weekend present’s title would, presumably, change as a part of that transfer.

Walker has reported on such occasions because the 2021 Atlanta spa bloodbath and co-hosted a primetime particular with Anderson Cooper, Victor Blackwell, and Ana Cabrera, referred to as “Afraid: Worry in America’s Communities of Shade.” Throughout the 2020 presidential election and the Georgia Senate runoff, Walker was a part of an election evening crew reporting on President Trump’s repeated assaults in opposition to the Georgia Secretary of State, baselessly claiming fraud.
 
Walker started her profession at CNN as an anchor for CNN Worldwide, the place she anchored throughout the ongoing humanitarian and political disaster in Venezuela, and through large-scale demonstrations in opposition to a controversial extradition invoice in Hong Kong in June 2019, amongst different occasions. She was dwell on the air as a hearth ripped by way of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019.
 
Walker graduated magna cum laude with a twin diploma in political science and broadcast journalism from the College of Southern California, and speaks conversational Korean and Spanish.