Allen Huntspon

• Served on production team weekly operating Panasonic P2 cameras and lighting for live services at the mega church.

*CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield • Wrote day-of-air anchor scripts, show opens, teases, created graphics, and produced segments under tight deadlines for some of the highest rated broadcasts on global news leader CNN. • Served as lead writer/producer during LIVE breaking news coverage of the world’s biggest stories, including, The Newtown School Shooting, Boston Marathon Bombing, Kenya Mall Attack, Gulf Oil Spill, 2008 & 2012 Presidential Election, George Zimmerman Trial, Michael Brown/Ferguson Protests, Ebola Crisis, Israel Gaza Conflict, Superstorm Sandy, and Hunt For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. • Served as writer during many of CNN’s award-winning coverage and breaking news events and has written for anchors Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, Don Lemon, and Chris Cuomo during special live coverage. • Produced dozens of news-making legal segments with legal analysts Sunny Hostin and Joey Jackson. • Led logistics for the production of stories, including but not limited to, coordinating segments live from control room, editing videos, conducting interviews, scouting locations, securing the production crew, handling travel for production team, selecting video and graphic elements, and on-air fonts for newscast. • Managed social media accounts for CNN anchors to grow TV audience.

*CNN Newsroom with T.J. Holmes & Betty Nguyen, CNN Newsroom with Heidi Collins, CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips, CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello • Produced, edited and selected best video elements for CNN Newsroom's live newscast. • Produced four-part award-winning education series highlighting United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s push to get more African-American men to teach in America. • Produced a half-hour original special specifically designed for CNN’s Education contributor Dr. Steve Perry. • Co-manager of CNN Newsroom’s first blog. Wrote, segment produced and field produced for CNN Newsroom shows. • Served as video producer during LIVE breaking news coverage of the 2008 Presidential election, Japan tsunami disaster, Haiti earthquake, war in Libya, and more. Trusted to book strongest on-air guests. Served as tape-producer on CNN’s Campbell Brown Show, American Morning, Larry King Live, and American Morning Wake-up Call Show.

*CNN's Larry King Live • Produced, edited and selected best video elements for CNN’s “Larry King Live Show.” Managed the reporting of all music aired during live broadcast and verified all tracks with major record labels. • Managed legal compliance with Turner Legal Department to ensure all music was properly verified.

*CNN Presents, Documentary Unit • Produced, field produced and tape-produced segments for five CNN documentaries with Anchors Soledad O’Brien, Christiane Amanpour, Drew Griffin, and Carol Costello. Supported producers and directors with interviews, research, logging, and identifying guests across the country for documentaries. • Assisted with transcriptions and story development for documentaries, including, but not limited to: CNN’s “Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination”; CNN’s “Black in America”; CNN Presents… “Scream Bloody Murder”; CNN Presents… “Palin Revealed”; CNN Presents…“Her Name Was Steven”; Co-produced CNN’s Black in America: “Behind the Scenes” web piece for cnn.com.