Frank Sesno is senior vice president and Washington bureau chief for CNN. He supervises the network's largest newsgathering team and oversees the bureau's daily operations. Sesno's responsibilities include editorial direction and decision making for the network's White House, Congressional, Pentagon, State Department, and general Washington news reporting. Sesno also serves as co-anchor of CNN's Newsday along with Jeanne Meserve. The program airs weekdays from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

During major news events, Sesno provides on-air analysis and commentary. He also contributes special reporting projects to the network. For the 1996 political cycle, Sesno anchored Inside Politics Extra, the network's daily morning political update, the conventions, and election night Congressional returns.

Before his promotion to bureau chief, Sesno served as CNN executive editor in Washington, directing coverage and overseeing a major reorganization of the newsroom. From 1991 to 1994, he co-anchored two daily news programs, The International Hour and The World Today. From 1984 to 1991, Sesno was CNN's White House correspondent.

Sesno has anchored and reported from many major international and domestic news events, including political conventions, presidential and economic summit meetings, Middle East peace talks, the 50th anniversary of D-Day from Normandy, and the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. He has interviewed numerous world leaders, including Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Reagan, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Muburak, Vice President Al Gore, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordanian King Hussein and Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel.

Some of Sesno's special reports and documentaries have been recognized by his peers. He won a prestigious Emmy Award for coverage of the 1993 midwest flooding. His coverage of superpower summits won a CableACE award. His interview with the president of Mexico won a Houston International Film Festival award. His "Democracy in America" series on economic dislocation in America earned a first place in economic reporting from United Awards in Media at

Lincoln University. While based in London, Sesno received the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Spot News Reporting.

Sesno joined CNN in 1984 from AP Radio where he was an overseas correspondent in London and a White House correspondent. Before joining AP Radio, Sesno was with the Voice of America and WCFR Radio in Springfield, Vermont.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sesno also serves on the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College and on the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards selection committee.