Julia Vargas Jones

Julia Vargas Jones is a correspondent with CNN Newsource based in Los Angeles. She holds a master's in Journalism and Politics from Columbia University. 

Vargas Jones is an Emmy-award winning journalist from Brazil covering major national and international stories in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. She has covered a variety of stories touching the western states, including the U.S.-Mexico border and the impacts of the pandemic on immigration policies and removals. Since 2020, she covered extremist groups in the United States – reporting on domestic terrorism, the resurrection of armed militias, and the growing influence of Q Anon on American discourse and politics. She has also covered several high-profile court cases including the the DOJ’s investigation into then-President Trump's businesses and Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes trials in New York and Los Angeles.

In 2021, Vargas Jones won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for covering the death of George Floyd and its aftermath. She was nominated for two other Emmys: for the coverage of the Haitian migrant crisis at the southern border of the U.S. in 2021, and the coverage of Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey in 2017. For the latter, she also won an Edward R. Murrow Award.