Oren Liebermann


Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as the Jerusalem correspondent for CNN.

Biography

Liebermann was raised in Israel and in the Wayside section of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he attended Ocean Township High School. He speaks English in addition to his first language Hebrew. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of Virginia informational technology and marketing and a M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. After school, he began his career in radio working as a sports reporter for WINA-AM in Charlottesville, Virginia before moving to television as a reporter for WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland; the Washington, D.C. reporter for WYOU-TV of Scranton, Pennsylvania; and in 2007, he joined WAVY-TV in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2010, he worked as a general assignment reporter for CBS 3 in Philadelphia. In 2015, he joined CNN as their Jerusalem correspondent. During his time as a journalist, he has won two Emmys and three Associated Press awards.

Personal life

In 2012, he married Allentown-native Cassandra "Cassie" Kramer in an interfaith ceremony. They met while both were working as reporters at WBOC in Delaware. He lives with his wife and daughter in Jerusalem and has dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He has Type 1 Diabetes and serves as an advocate for those who have the condition and has authored a book detailing his experience entitled "The Insulin Express."