Josh Campbell

Josh Campbell is an award-winning CNN correspondent covering national security, guns, and law enforcement. He reports both domestically and internationally, providing analysis across CNN platforms. Campbell won an Emmy in 2021 for reporting on the murder of George Floyd and has been recognized for his work on terrorism and immigration issues. Before joining CNN, he had a career in national security as a supervisory special agent with the FBI. His work included deployments overseas responding to terrorist attacks and kidnappings as a member of the FBI's global response team, online undercover operations, fugitive apprehensions and extraditions, diplomatic postings to American embassies abroad, spokesperson and crisis communication liaison with the White House and National Security Council, and serving as Special Assistant to the Director of the FBI. Campbell was honored for his squad's pioneering efforts utilizing cutting-edge technology to disrupt imminent terrorist plots overseas. In his years serving overseas, he trained hundreds of foreign law enforcement, military, and intelligence officers in conducting interviews and interrogations, intelligence collection, crime scene management, and the rule of law. Campbell is an adjunct Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security, served as adjunct professor for digital and national security at the University of Southern California, and is the author of a book on the FBI. In addition, he is a reserve military officer with past assignments in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific.