Samuel Burke | |
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 Samuel Burke at the2015 Philadelphia train crash site | |
| Born | 1985 or 1986 (age 39–40)[1] |
| Alma mater | The Cronkite School |
| Occupations | CNN reporter and anchor (2009–2019) |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Samuel Burke (born 1985/1986) is abusiness and technologycorrespondent who has anchored programs on bothCNN International andCNN en Español. He is host of the CNN series "Suddenly Family - DNA Discoveries with Samuel Burke."[2] He's also hosted the program iReport in English and the Cyber Café daily on the Spanish-language morning program CafeCNN. Previously, he served as producer for war correspondentChristiane Amanpour. In 2014, he won an Outstanding Entertainment Program Emmy Award for his reports on the technology show CLIX.[3] In 2016, he won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program for his role hosting Café CNN.
Samuel Burke was born and raised inPhoenix, Arizona to a Greek Sephardic Jewish family. He learned to speak Spanish at a young age, travelling to Mexico frequently as a child and spending summers in Mexico at a language college as a teenager.[1] Burke attendedPhoenix's North High School and in 2003 he was a member of the United States House of Representatives Page Program after he was nominated by CongressmanEd Pastor.[4]
Burke attended theArizona State University, graduating with a BA in Spanish.[5] Samuel Burke then went to graduate studies at the university, graduating from a master's degree in journalism from theWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[6] While pursuing his graduate studies there, Burke worked as the teaching assistant to former CNN anchorAaron Brown.[7] Since his 2009 graduation, Burke has returned several times to give seminars for current students attending the school.[6][8] He is a member of the Cronkite School National Board of Advisors.[9]
Burke was a co-anchor for the Spanish college news programCronkite Newswatch in 2008 through 2009, which was broadcast onPBS andTelefutura, and was produced at the Walter Cronkite School.[10] While attending graduate studies, Burke held an internship with CNN, working for the television programAnderson Cooper 360°. He also wrote for theJewish News of Greater Phoenix. His first job out of college was as Christiane Amanpour's digital producer for the CNN showAmanpour. Initially there were no jobs available on the show, so he had decided to potentially take a job as a security guard at the CNN headquarters in New York City, work the nightshift, and volunteer for CNN programming during the day. Just before the start of the show, however, he was offered a temporary job with Amanpour, which turned into a full-time position.
Following his work withChristiane Amanpour, Burke was tapped to become the anchor for the CNN en Español programEuropa Hoy from 2010 to 2011, a program based inLondon that was broadcast in both Latin America and North America. In 2011 he then became the anchor of the dailyCyber Café on CafeCNN. He also reports a nightly segment for the business news showCNN Dinero and a weekly segment on the technology news showCLIX.[1] In addition Burke reports about technology on CNN International,[11] appears onWorld Business Today,[12] and reports on privacy and security on social media for the CNN U.S. news network.[13] Burke is a CNN.com contributor; he once wrote a daily column on a range of international affairs, mainly in the Middle East.
In 2021, he became the host of the CNN series "Suddenly Family - DNA Discoveries with Samuel Burke" after discovering via an at-home DNA test that he isn't related to the Burke family.[2] When his Jewish family learned they're also part of a Mormon Pioneer family,[14] Burke began documenting his family and people around the world whose lives have been upended by at-home DNA testing.[15]
Burke, who is 25 years old
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