Эррол Барнетт: от Милтон-Кинс до эфира CBS News

British born American television presenter

Errol Barnett (born 3 April 1983) is the first and only Black British broadcaster on American television. The Emmy award winner is a British born American anchor and national correspondent for CBS News is based in New York City. He covered the Trump administration in Washington D. C., anchored CNN Newsroom and hosted CNN International's cultural affairs program Inside Africa. During his two years at the helm of the award winning show Barnett reported from half the continent including Senegal, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Madagascar.

Errol Barnett was born in Milton Keynes, England to Michael Christie and Pamela, an English woman from Liverpool. Gladstone Christie, his Jamaican grandfather, was one of 500 Caribbean aircrew serving with the British Royal Air Force during WWII, afterward relocating to England as part of the Windrush generation. Barnett has English, German and Jamaican heritage. His mother later married Gary Barnett, a US Air Force sergeant who served in the Gulf War before moving the family to Phoenix. After spending the first decade of his life in England, Barnett attended Garden Lakes Elementary and Westview High School, in Avondale, Arizona, before Channel One News hired him in 2001 relocating to Los Angeles.

The youth oriented Channel One hired Barnett, their youngest anchor/reporter at age 18, to work alongside Maria Menounos, Seth Doane, Gotham Chopra among others. While also taking college classes, Barnett covered Barack Obama's breakout DNC keynote speech, reported from the United Nations when Colin Powell presented flawed WMD intelligence and from the US Capitol during passage of the Homeland Security Act. Barnett was chosen as one of Teen People magazine's "20 Teens Who Will Change The World" for his early work. After being accepted to UCLA he left Channel One to complete his undergraduate studies. At UCLA Barnett received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a focus on international relations. After graduation, in July 2008, Barnett was hired by CNN.

CNN initially assigned Barnett to report on the rise in influence of social media and in 2008 he was part of the most viewed streaming event in history during President Obama's Inauguration on CNN. com. In 2010, he anchored a noon eastern news hour on CNN International from CNN Abu Dhabi focusing on the Arab Spring uprising, which was part of the network's Peabody award winning coverage. As a CNN foreign correspondent, he was based in Johannesburg, South Africa covering the death of Nelson Mandela the Oscar Pistorius murder trial and various miner strikes.

Barnett also hosted the network's longest running feature program Inside Africa from 2011 to 2014. The weekly half hour documentary earned awards for its depiction of the continent, with Barnett traveling to and reporting from twenty two countries in his adventurous self described "journey of discovery."

While based in Atlanta, Georgia Barnett anchored CNN Newsroom leading coverage of the Ferguson, Missouri protests, death of Robin Williams and the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. Barnett became the focus of an Internet meme during coverage of the protests with viewers noting Barnett's response to his co anchor's suggestion that police use water cannons on demonstrators. Buzzfeed described Barnett's "side eye" expression as "did that just happen" and "is this real life?"

CBS News hired Barnett during the 2016 election as a Washington, D. C. based correspondent and anchor appearing on CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening News and Face the Nation. Currently, he is based in New York City as a national correspondent and anchor of CBS News 24/7, its streaming network. His coverage includes the Presidency of Donald Trump, artificial intelligence, extreme weather and various breaking news events. He also conducts high interest interviews; his chat with Wikipedia's top editor was viewed more than two million times.