Anna Coren

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Coren graduated from Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus in 1996 with a communications degree and spent time working for regional television networks Prime (12 months) and NBN (18 months). She was picked up by the Nine Network in 1999 and earned a spot as an on-camera reporter for National Nine News in early 2000. In 2002, she began presenting news updates and the National Nine Early Morning News.

Coren's career at the Seven Network began in December 2003, presenting late news updates and presenting the summer edition of Today Tonight in the place of Naomi Robson. She has since presented many one-off events such as Australia's Brainiest Kid, 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Royal Wedding Night with Seven and Zero Hour – The Bali Bombings. Her role at Seven also involved filling-in as news presenter with the morning news program Sunrise. Coren also presented Seven's factual series True Stories.

In 2005, Coren was appointed United States correspondent for Seven News replacing Mike Amor who returned to Australia to present Seven 4.30 News. In this role she appeared on the Global Notebook segment for Sunrise.

During her tenure as the Seven Network's U.S. correspondent Coren covered the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War from northern Israel and the 2005 G8 Summit at the Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland.

On 27 January 2007, Coren was appointed presenter of Today Tonight, replacing Naomi Robson who left the show on 1 December 2006.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21122313-5006002,00.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=Sydney |title=End of a casual affair |date=27 January 2007}} Her role as presenter of Today Tonight saw Coren become the frequent subject of satire by the presenters of the television show The Chaser's War on Everything.

In September 2008, Coren announced that she would be leaving Today Tonight to take up a position with CNN in Hong Kong.{{cite news|last=Reines |first=Ros |date=28 September 2008 |url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24411978-5009160,00.html |title=Anna Coren quits Seven for Hong Kong |publisher=news.com.au |access-date=28 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002143522/http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0%2C22049%2C24411978-5009160%2C00.html |archive-date=2 October 2008 |url-status=live }} She was succeeded by Matthew White, with Coren presenting Today Tonight for the last time on 10 October 2008.{{cite news |last=Robinson |first=Georgina |date=9 October 2008 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/people/seven-denies-go-now-order-to-tab-tv-star/2008/10/09/1223145515483.html |title=Tomorrow Today Tonight is just another yesterday for Coren |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=9 October 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081012084000/http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/people/seven-denies-go-now-order-to-tab-tv-star/2008/10/09/1223145515483.html| archive-date= 12 October 2008 | url-status= live}}

In October 2022, CNN apologised for their coverage of a mass murder in Thailand, after Coren and her cameraman Daniel Hodge were temporarily detained after trespassing and filming a scene without permission. Both were fined $133 and told to leave the country. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand criticised the action as "unethical" and "insensitive".{{Cite news |date=2022-10-10 |title=Thai nursery: CNN journalists apologise for entering site of deadly attack |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63196932 |access-date=2022-10-10}}{{Cite web |title=CNN pulls video of Thai massacre site and apologizes for filming crime scene without permission |url=https://fortune.com/2022/10/10/cnn-pulls-video-of-thai-massacre-site-apologizes-filming-crime-scene-without-permission/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Fortune |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Thai immigration withdraw tourist visas of two CNN reporters |url=https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-immigration-withdraw-tourist-visas-of-two-cnn-reporters/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=www.thaipbsworld.com |language=en-US}}

Coren directed the documentary short [https://annacoren.com/documentary/ The Noble Guardian], about Mahbouba Seraj. At the 2023 LA Shorts International Film Festival, it won best documentary.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/awards/awards/the-noble-guardian-documentary-afghanistan-activist-1235775082/|title='The Noble Guardian' Documentary on Afghan Activist Eyes Oscar Chances|first=Jenelle|last=Riley|date=November 4, 2023}}

Coren is a contributed author for the book Through Her Eyes – Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine. She wrote about her own experiences reporting from the frontline in Afghanistan.

In January 2025, after 15 years of wide-ranging reporting with CNN, Coren left to join CBS News as a Hong Kong-based foreign correspondent, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.{{cite web |author1=B. N. M. Staff |title=Anna Coren Departs CNN to Join CBS News as Foreign Correspondent |url=https://barrettmedia.com/2025/01/22/anna-coren-departs-cnn-to-join-cbs-news-as-foreign-correspondent/ |website=Barrett Media |access-date=28 January 2025 |date=22 January 2025 |quote=After 15 years at CNN, Anna Coren is departing the cable network to join CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong. Coren will cover the Asia-Pacific region for CBS News, with a focus on how the region pertains to the United States as President Donald Trump begins his second term.}}

Coren received the 2011 and 2012 Asian Television Award for "Best News Presenter or Anchor" for her work on the CNN program World Report.{{cite web |date=12 December 2011 |url=http://www.abu.org.my/Latest_News-@-CNN-quqt-s_Anna_Coren_named_-quqt-Best_News_Presenter-quqt-.aspx |title=CNN's Anna Coren named 'Best News Presenter' |publisher=Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union |access-date=14 January 2012}}

In December 2013, Coren received her third Asian Television Award-winning the prestigious 'Best News Story 10 minutes or less' for her powerful exclusive report 'Afghanistan Taliban Firefight'.{{Cite web |title=CNN Wins at the 2013 Asian Television Awards |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/11/cnn-wins-at-the-2013-asian-television-awards/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |language=en-US}}

Coren directed the documentary short The Noble Guardian, about Mahbouba Seraj; at the 2023 LA Shorts International Film Festival, it won best documentary.

She has twins with her husband, Australian hedge fund manager Adam Upton. They married in 2016.{{Cite web|first= Andrew |last=Hornery |title= Ultimate challenge faces Anna Coren in unfamiliar territory |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|date=October 23, 2015 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/ultimate-challenge-faces-anna-coren-in-unfamiliar-territory-20151022-gkfwpa.html }}{{Cite web|title= It's double trouble for Anna Coren who is pregnant with twins! |publisher=Woman's Day|date=October 19, 2015 |url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/parenting/family/cnns-anna-coren-is-pregnant-with-twins-31910 }}{{Cite web |title= Anna Coren returns from lengthy maternity leave |publisher= CNN |date= February 2, 2017 |url= https://cnncommentary.com/2017/02/02/anna-coren-returns-from-lengthy-maternity-leave/ |access-date= 8 May 2019 |archive-date= 15 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210115143140/https://cnncommentary.com/2017/02/02/anna-coren-returns-from-lengthy-maternity-leave/ |url-status= dead }}

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