John Zarrella is an American
news correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...
. He worked for
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
from 1981–2014. He was the principal correspondent for CNN's coverage of the U.S. space program, covering such events such as
John Glenn’s 1998 return to space, the Mars Pathfinder mission and numerous space shuttle launches. Zarrella was the CNN network correspondent on site when the 1986
''Challenger'' shuttle disaster occurred. In 2011, Zarrella covered the final flights of the Space Shuttle program. In 2020 he made an appearance in
Challenger the Final Flight recounting covering the Challenger disaster.
External links and references
John Zarrella at CNNJohn Zarrella's website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
CNN people
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