11 Facts About Atika Shubert

Atika Shubert is a graduate of the Class of 1991 of Jakarta International School.

Atika Shubert is an economics graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, US.

Atika Shubert joined CNN as a reporter for CNN's Jakarta bureau, and was appointed to the position of Tokyo correspondent in 2004.

Atika Shubert reported on the nuclear tensions in the Korean Peninsula in 2006, after North Korea tested nuclear weapons.

CNN claims that Atika Shubert was one of the first CNN correspondents to report on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, reporting from Aceh, Indonesia, where she was vacationing at the time.

Also in Indonesia, Atika Shubert covered a number of major new events that included the 2002 Bali bombings, the fall of President Abdurrahman Wahid and the installation of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri as his successor, the resurgence of the Free Aceh separatist movement, and the religious conflict in the Moluccas.

Atika Shubert briefly covered the Schapelle Corby verdict in Bali; however, due to the time-consuming and overall expensive nature of this landmark court case, CNN eventually opted to run stock footage obtained from its Australian network affiliates instead of direct reporting.

From 2008 until 2015 Atika Shubert was based in the CNN London bureau covering stories from around the UK and Europe.

Atika Shubert relocated to Berlin in June 2015 to cover Germany and Europe.

In October 2010, Atika Shubert interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shortly after his organization released classified US military documents related to the Iraq War.

Atika Shubert persisted in her line of questioning, and Assange walked out of the interview.