Susan Jo Candiotti (born December 6, 1953)[1] is an American journalist currently working as a national correspondent for CNN.
She worked as an investigative reporter at local stations in Miami, where her assignments included the Iran-Contra affair.
She has covered several prominent national stories, including the 9/11 attacks in New York City, the 1999-2000 Elian Gonzalez story, the 1999 James Byrd dragging-death trial in Jasper, Texas, the 1998 fatal Capitol shooting rampage in Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma City bombing and subsequent trials of convicted co-conspirators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Candiotti also has covered breaking news stories in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and Peru.
In Haiti, Candiotti spent months covering the crisis preceding and following Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return from exile.