Celia Hatton

Celia Hatton was named CBS News correspondent in August 2009. Hatton reports from China and contributes to CBS News broadcasts across the division.

Hatton has covered China and the surrounding region for CBS News since April 2003. She has provided reports from almost every corner of the country, including the southern factory belt, the ice festival held each year in the north, the coastal metropolises of Shanghai and Beijing and cancer villages in western China.

Hatton also has traveled throughout Asia on behalf of CBS News. Her wide-ranging reports included the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the earthquake on the island of Nias in Indonesia, the outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam, genetic cloning in South Korea and the devastating cyclone in Myanmar.

Hatton's coverage of China's Sichuan earthquake in 2008 garnered a Gracie Award from the Association of American Women in Radio and Television. Hatton reported the story exclusively for CBS News and the award-winning reports were broadcast on the "CBS Evening News," "The Early Show," CBS Newspath and CBS Network Radio.

Previously, Hatton was a freelance reporter in China for a variety of radio and television programs, including the PBS Nightly Business Report, the BBC World Service and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She also worked as the China Correspondent for the U.S. public radio program, Pacific Time.

Hatton received a Bachelor of Political Studies from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Before moving to China, she was a news writer and producer at Citytv in Toronto, Canada.

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