Ben Wedeman is a multi Emmy Award-winning and Murrow Awards journalist who has been working as a war correspondent for CNN since 1994. Greatly, in late 2009, Wedeman was selected as the lead correspondent of CNN in Jerusalem.

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Wedeman was originally hired by CNN as a local Jordanian employee in 1994 with the job title being “fixer /producer /sound technician”.One of his duties was to help the reporting staff gets through checkpoints.

He gradually rose to be the chief of CNN’s Amman office. Cairo, Egypt, Wedeman was the head of CNN’s Cairo office from 1998 to 2006, where he led CNN’s coverage of the rebellion against then-President Hosni Mubarak as well as the wider Middle East unrest. CNN named Kevin Flower as their head of the Jerusalem office in 2009 and appointed Wedeman as the correspondent of that office. He is currently covering the catastrophe that took place in Beirut, Lebanon.

Ben Wedeman Age and  Birthday: How Old is Ben Wideman?

Benjamin C. Wedeman was born on September 1, 1960, in Washington, United States. Furthermore. He is American by nationality and his ethnic background is white. More so, he likes to celebrate his birthday on September 1st every year. Wedeman will 60 years old on Sep 1st, 2020. His zodiac is Virgo.