Nicole Lapin
Anchor
Nicole Lapin is one of the brightest young stars in journalism
today. The child of a former Nobel Prize nominee and a beauty
queen, it is easy to see where Nicole gets her brains and her
beauty. But, this first generation American has created her own
niche as the face of online news and a powerful role model for
young people worldwide.
Often described as the Doogie Howser of news, Nicole
became the youngest anchor on CNN at 22. She started as one of the
first anchors to launch CNN Pipeline, now CNN.com LIVE. Reporting
on the forefront of the digital revolution, Nicole contributes to
various divisions of the network, like CNN Headline News, CNN U.S.
and CNN Student News, with what's hot online. She also produces and
stars in a podcast about new gadgets and tech gizmos.
With the idea that there are other young people like herself making
a difference, Nicole launched a series Young People Who
Rock. Each week, she profiles a different person under 30,
from community leaders to politicians to entrepreneurs, doing
amazing things. Her columns appear on CNN.com on her own blog every
week with broadcast interviews to follow. She incorporates
nominations through the network's user-generated content initiative
I-Report so that unknown young people have a chance to tell the
world what they are doing.
Expanding her reach as a positive young figure, Nicole created a
campaign called Being Smart is Cool. Every week she holds
a chat about current events with children from the Starlight
Starbright Children's Foundation. She was appointed ambassador for
the charity and travels on their behalf to inspire youth across the
globe to care about issues in the news.
Utilizing her unique and conversational communication style, Nicole
has made a name for herself anchoring major events like the
Israel-Hezbollah War, Gerald Ford's death and the Virginia Tech
massacre. Prior to CNN, Nicole worked as a business and technology
reporter on the floor of major stock exchanges.� She also paid her
dues as an investigative reporter and local news anchor at several
news markets across the country. On the way, she picked up
accolades from the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences, Association of Women Journalists and Society of
Professional Journalists, among others.� Nicole graduated as
valedictorian with honors in political science from the prestigious
Medill School Journalism at NorthwesternUniversity.
