Jeremy Diamond | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1990-01-15)January 15, 1990 (age 35) |
| Education | The George Washington University(BA) |
| Occupation | CNN Correspondent in Israel |
| Website | https://www.cnn.com/profiles/jeremy-diamond |
Jeremy Diamond (born 15 January 1990 in Toronto) is a Canadian-American journalist who is a CNN reporter inJerusalem.[1] He was theWhite House correspondent forCNN.[2]
Jerry Diamond was born on January 15, 1990, inToronto, Canada. Diamond attended theFrench American School of New York from the age of three through his graduation from high school in 2011 where he worked at the school newspaper.[3] In December 2014,[3] he graduatedcum laude with a B.A. ininternational affairs fromGeorge Washington University.[1] Diamond is fluent inFrench and conversational inSpanish andHebrew.[1][4] At George Washington, he worked as the news editor atThe GW Hatchet and wrote a story uncovering the misrepresentation of the university's financial aid policy by officials, winning theInstitute on Political Journalism's Collegiate Journalism Award and a Pinnacle Award from the College Media Association.[2][1][5][6]
After school, he worked as an intern atCNN before becoming a reporter in September 2014.[1][4] He worked as aWhite House correspondent until the summer of 2024.[1]
He covered the election campaign andpresidency of Donald Trump, closely following his rise from the start of his presidential campaign to theelections.[1][4] He covered his policy onNorth Korea and focused on concerns aboutCOVID-19 misinformation in 2020.[2][1][4] He has reported on theBiden administration's response to thecoronavirus pandemic andKamala Harris's handling of immigration.[2]
Diamond started reporting from Israel two days after theOctober 7 attacks, covering the Israeli attacks on Gaza and theGaza war hostage crisis, theWest Bank andIsraeli settler violence.[7] In June 2024, Diamond was named the network's Jerusalem-based international correspondent.[8][4]
Diamond has advocated without success for journalists to be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip without being embedded with the Israeli military so that they can report independently. Diamond has reported as an embedded journalist with the IDF, allowing him to survey destroyed neighborhoods and tour the tunnels where Israeli hostages allegedly were held. Like all journalists, the IDF has denied him the freedom to meet or speak with Palestinians in Gaza, or to verify any assertions made by Hamas or the IDF in Gaza.[7] On 13 July 2025, as Diamond was coveringthe killing of Sayfollah Musallet in theWest Bank, he and his crew were attacked by a group ofIsraeli settlers inSinjil.[9][10][11][12] He reported that the back window of his team's vehicle had been shattered, although they were all able to escape unharmed.[9][10][12]
Born in Canada, Diamond has citizenship in Canada and the U.S. He lives inWashington D.C.. He was formerly romantically linked toNBC political correspondentAli Vitali.[13]