Hada Messia

CNN

Hada Messia is a CNN staff producer and bureau manager. Responsibilities have included running the Rome bureau operations, setting up for big events such as the death of Pope John Paul II, and the overseeing of news coverage of big stories in and out of Italy, such as: the Kosovo war, Italian earthquakes, Italian political scenes (elections and various political scandals), Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI travels and all Vatican related stories (including the clergy sexual abuse scandals), 9/11 aftermath including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and all of the leading stories out of Italy (including the Knox trials).

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