Atika Shubert is a CNN correspondent based in London. She is responsible for covering general news in the UK and other regional assignments. Shubert joined CNN in 2000 and covered news from the Jakarta Bureau before moving to Tokyo in 2004 and Jerusalem in 2006.
Since her appointment to the London bureau in September 2008, Shubert has reported on a wide variety of stories including the sub-prime mortgage financial crisis and the groundbreaking CERN particle-collider project in Switzerland.
Shubert was one of the first CNN correspondents to report live from Aceh, Indonesia on the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 that killed more than 200,000 in Aceh alone. Her reports from the devastated region helped earn CNN the prestigious Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award in 2005.
In Jerusalem, Shubert reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her reports included coverage of Palestinian militant rocket attacks into Israeli towns as well as fighting between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah within Gaza. In 2008, Shubert interviewed Israel’s President Shimon Peres as part of CNN’s special coverage of Israel’s 60th anniversary.
During her time reporting from Tokyo, Shubert covered the controversial deployment of the country’s Self Defense Forces to Iraq and North Korea’s 2006 testing of nuclear weapons. In 2006, Shubert interviewed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a CNN exclusive interview. She also reported live from Hiroshima in the summer of 2005 for the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing in 1945 for CNN’s special ‘Remembering Hiroshima.’
Shubert also covered major news events in Indonesia, including the fall of Indonesia’s President Suharto in 1998, East Timor’s transition to independence in 1999 and the 2002 Bali bombings. Shubert also interviewed Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in 2001 just before his impeachment. She also covered stories out of the Philippines and Singapore, including an interview with former President of the Philippines Josef Estrada in the midst of his corruption trial.
Shubert graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tufts University in Boston and speaks Bahasa Indonesia.
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