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Melinda Wittstock is an award-winning broadcast and print journalist with 15 years' reporting and hosting experience. Ms.Wittstock?s work spans BBC Radio and TV News, ABC News, National Public Radio (NPR), MSNBC/CNBC, CNNfn, as well as London's Times, Guardian, and Observer newspapers. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. Wittstock has covered U.S. politics for more than a decade and has anchored stories ranging from the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the death of Princess Diana, to the impeachment of President Clinton and the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Presidential campaigns. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Brought up in New York and Toronto, Ms. Wittstock graduated with an Honors B.A. in political science from McGill University. Following college, she moved to London and joined the London Times as a correspondent when she was 22. She spent five years on the newspaper and started working for the BBC in 1990 as a newsmagazine reporter and live radio/TV pundit. [CR-LF][CR-LF]In 1998, Ms. Wittstock moved back to New York, where she anchored the ABC?s overnight and early morning national news programs. She joined MSNBC and CNBC as a news reporter and anchor in 1999. After brief stint with NPR, Ms.Wittstock left to freelance as a congressional reporter for CNN, CNNfn, and CNN Radio, as well as The London Observer.

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