Nathan Hodge

Nathan Hodge Senior Row Editor Nathan Hodge is a Senior Row Editor based in London, responsible for approving CNN content from around the world. He also contributes analysis on air and for CNN Digital. Latest Nathan Hodge is a Senior Row Editor based in London, responsible for approving CNN content from around the world. He also contributes analysis on air and for CNN Digital. A Ukrainian and Russian speaker, Hodge previously served as CNN’s Moscow bureau chief. During his tenure there, he oversaw coverage of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, from the Kremlin's sweeping crackdown on the country’s domestic opposition to its muzzling of Russia’s independent media. He also led CNN’s Moscow operations during the sharpest confrontations between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War, from Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election to the Salisbury poisonings in Britain. Hodge is part of the CNN team that has covered Russia’s war on Ukraine since February 2022. He ran CNN’s Moscow operation in the tense weeks leading up to and through the start of the Russian invasion and was point person for communications between CNN and the Russian government. He also dealt with getting CNN local staff to safety after the introduction of draconian wartime reporting laws. He was editorial lead in Ukraine during the siege of Azovstal and the discovery of mass atrocities in Bucha and was Lead Russia Editorial Producer for the CNN Worldwide team that won a duPont-Columbia award for its sweeping coverage of Ukraine. He joined CNN from The Wall Street Journal, where he served as both Moscow bureau chief and Kabul bureau chief. While based in Moscow, he covered Russia’s war in Syria, fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Islamic State’s rise in Central Asia. He traced the path of a security official from Tajikistan who defected to ISIS and was the first reporter to track down the family of the Uzbekistan citizen convicted of a 2017 terror attack in New York. Hodge has extensive experience in Afghanistan, covering the initial months of the US-led military campaign against the Taliban from Tajikistan and Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002. He subsequently covered the country’s aid-driven economic boom, three tumultuous Afghan presidential elections and insurgency around the country. He was based full-time in Kabul from 2012-2015 and datelined from around the country. He also wrote extensively from Pakistan for the WSJ, investigating extrajudicial killings in Karachi, sectarian violence in Lahore and terror attacks in Peshawar. In the years after 9/11, Hodge embedded extensively with the US military, covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the withdrawal of combat forces there in 2011. With over a decade’s experience covering military affairs and national security in Washington, Hodge was the Wall Street Journal’s chief reporter covering the defense industry, winning a National Press Club Dornheim Award in 2012 for coverage of defense policy. He has written extensively on the business of military procurement, covering both cutting-edge military technology and waste, fraud and overspending at the Pentagon. He has covered armed conflict and the legacy of war in the Donbas, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya and the north Caucasus, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of ‘Armed Humanitarians’, a book about the American experience in nation-building. He is also co-author of ‘A Nuclear Family Vacation’, a travelogue about nuclear weaponry.