Rick Sanchez anchored the 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom each weekday and served as a contributor for CNN en Español prior to his dismissal in October 2010. He was based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta and New York, Sanchez joined the network in September 2004.

Throughout his career, Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported in war zones in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Additionally, Sanchez has reported live from Havana, Cuba, numerous times. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award.

Erica Hill was a news anchor for CNN/U.S. and a correspondent for Anderson Cooper 360° and Campbell Brown: No Bias. No Bull. Hill joined CNN in January 2003 as an anchor at Headline News, most recently for Prime News with Erica Hill, a live two-hour interview and news program. She began providing news updates for Anderson Cooper 360° in April 2005 and joined the program full-time in February 2008. She is based in New York.

At Headline News, Hill anchored numerous breaking news reports including the death of actor Heath Ledger, baseball player Cory Lidle flying a plane into a New York high-rise apartment and the Northeast U.S. blackout. She provided political coverage for the network for both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns including updates for Headline Prime and Glenn Beck for the current primary election season.

Heidi Collins was the anchor of CNN Newsroom each weekday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. (ET). Based in Atlanta, Collins joined CNN in July 2002 as a news anchor for then - Headline News. She has also provided in-depth reports and served as a news anchor for several CNN programs, including American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360° and The Situation Room. 

Collins’ newsmaking reporting includes the first interview with President George W. Bush after the 2008 presidential election, from the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City on Veteran’s Day, reporting from Virginia Tech in the wake of the shootings in April 2007, and anchoring during the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003. She has also interviewed Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and other key political figures for CNN’s programs.

Campbell Brown anchored her own self-titled news program that aired on CNN at 8 pm, ET. Brown was the only non-partisan cable news anchor at 8 pm, taking a common sense approach to reporting the day's news, talking to newsmakers, and moderating lively discussions and debates with those who represent all points of view.

Prior to joining CNN, Brown worked with NBC News for 11 years. While there, Brown served as co-anchor of Weekend Today. She also served as the main substitute anchor for Brian Williams and a primary correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the weekday Today show. For NBC, she provided award-winning reporting on Hurricane Katrina and covered the last two presidential elections and the death of Pope John Paul II. Brown made several trips to Iraq to report on the Iraqi elections, abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and the trial of Saddam Hussein. She also traveled to Gaza and the West Bank to cover events in the Middle East.

Brown served as NBC News' White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's first term. She covered Bush's first presidential campaign and spent more than a month reporting from Austin, Texas, on the post-election recount story.

Christiane Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour., a 30-minute, daily interview program that premiered on CNN International in September 2009. She left CNN to join ABC News.

In her 18 years as an international correspondent, Amanpour has reported on all the major crises from the world’s many hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans and the United States during Hurricane Katrina.

Amanpour joined CNN in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the network’s international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN’s New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. Her first major assignment was the Gulf War, and she has since covered wars, famine, genocide and natural disasters around the globe.