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Career
Will Ripley is an award-winning correspondent for CNN, based at the network's Tokyo bureau. A journalist with more than 15 years of experience, Ripley is responsible for covering major news stories from around the world.Ripley has reported extensively across Japan -- including being among the first foreign journalists to interview Tokyo's first female governor and first female leader of the Democratic Party. He has covered major breaking stories including the devastating floods in Joso, the execution of two Japanese ISIS hostages, and the deadly eruption of Mt. Ontake. He has also filed in-depth reports on the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, Japanese innovation, fashion, and technology. Ripley is one of the few Western journalist's to make repeat visit's to North Korea. After North Korea's January nuclear test, he was the only American to report live from North Korea. He broke the stories of U.S. prisoners Kim Dong Chul and Otto Warmbier who were being held in North Korea. Ripley was also the first foreign journalist granted access to Pyongyang's new satellite control center, months before a February 2016 satellite launch, suspected by the U.S., South Korea, and Japan of being a test for long-range ballistic missile technology.

Prior to CNN, Ripley spent three years as an anchor and investigative journalist for KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado. While at KUSA-TV, he covered major stories including the historic legalization of recreational marijuana, catastrophic floods and wildfires, and the historic legalization of marijuana. Prior to his career at KUSA-TV,Ripley spent seven years on the U.S-Mexico border as an anchor and investigative reporter for KRGV-TV in South Texas. He reported on drug cartels, border violence and illegal immigration. Ripley also traveled to South America where he reported on a surge in Mara Salvatrucha gang activity.

Education
Ripley studied journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Accolades
Throughout his career Ripley has one numerous awards, including four Regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Heartland Regional Emmy award. He was honored by the Texas Association of Broadcasters with the Steve Pieringer award for outstanding valor in news coverage.