Hadas Gold

Hadas Gold (; born February 25, 1988) is a correspondent for CNN and CNN International covering AI and technology.

Early life Gold was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Her father is an Israel Defense Forces veteran and project manager for a drug company; her mother is a Hebrew teacher. Her family is Jewish. She moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when she was three and graduated in 2006 from Desert Mountain High School. She graduated with a B.A. in journalism and a M.A. in media and public affairs from George Washington University.

Career Gold interned at 60 Minutes, Politifact, and with Cox Newspapers before working as a freelance producer with Colombian TV network NTN 24 and then at Politico as a media reporter She left Politico after five years to work for CNN as their politics, media and global business reporter. Gold's employer at the time Politico, reported the threats to police. Gold states that: "I don't want to say it's something you just have to deal with, but the internet is both wonderful and not wonderful. You have to kind of take the good with the bad and react appropriately when it does seem serious." of migrant children being held at an ICE detention facility, including photos of them in cages. The article was first tweeted by numerous other journalists and public figures following President Donald Trump's new policy of taking children away from parents who are caught unlawfully crossing the Mexican border into the United States including New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein, Shaun King, Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, activist Linda Sarsour, and former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Gold subsequently deleted her tweet writing "Deleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they're from 2014)" after it emerged that the article was from 2014 during the administration of President Barack Obama.

Gold became a correspondent for CNN in 2017, eventually moving to London for the network. In 2021 she became the network's Jerusalem Correspondent. She was the first correspondent at CNN to cover the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and ensuing war reporting under live rocket fire, for which she and the CNN team were awarded an Emmy Award for Breaking News Coverage as well as an Overseas Press Club award.

Personal life In 2017, she married economist Christopher Alex Hooton in Scottsdale.