Atika Shubert

tika Shubert is CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent, a post she was appointed to at the end of 2006.

Prior to moving to Jerusalem, Shubert was CNN’s Tokyo correspondent, based in the Japanese capital city from 2004. During her time reporting from Tokyo Shubert covered several major news stories in Japan, including the controversial deployment of Japan’s Self Defense Forces to Iraq, the Japanese hostage case in Iraq, and the verdict of Shoko Asahara, the criminal mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo.

In the summer of 2005, Shubert reported live from Hiroshima on the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing in 1945 for CNN’s special ‘Remembering Hiroshima.’ Shubert reported on the nuclear tensions in the Korean Peninsula in 2006, after North Korea tested nuclear weapons.

Shubert was one of the first CNN correspondents to report on the deadly tsunami which struck the Indian Ocean region in December 2004. From Aceh, Indonesia, the region closest to the epicenter, she covered the story of one of the worst natural disasters in human history. She continued to return to Aceh, Indonesia, to report on the progress of reconstruction efforts.

Shubert joined CNN in 2000 as a correspondent in the CNN Jakarta Bureau, before moving to Tokyo.

Whilst in Indonesia, Shubert covered major news events that included the Bali bombing in 2002, the fall of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and the inauguration of the current President Megawati Sukarnoputri, East Timor’s transition to independence, the resurgence of the Free Aceh separatist movement, the religious conflict in Ambon, the fall of Indonesian former President Suharto as well as the student reform movement. She has also contributed reports from the Philippines and Singapore.

Prior to CNN, she was a correspondent for the Washington Post and the New Zealand Herald in Indonesia.

Shubert graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tufts University in Boston and speaks Bahasa Indonesia.