The award-winning correspondent was part of CNN's election coverage in 2004 and 2008, both on the campaign trail and reporting on key caucuses and primaries.
In 2003 he did extensive reports on the California recall election that led to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory.
Some of the other major events that he has covered while Boston Bureau Chief with CNN included the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist mystery, the funeral of Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina and the 50th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education case.
Prior to joining CNN, Lothian worked for NBC News based in the network's Los Angeles bureau.
Lothian has also worked at WDEF in Chattanooga, TN, WPTV in West Palm Beach, FL, KING-TV in Seattle, WA, and WCVB in Boston, MA.