Linda Stouffer Biography

Linda Stouffer is a news anchor for CNN Headline News. Her first name is Cinnamon, but she began using her middle name when she started at CNN.

Stouffer has been with the network since 1997. She co-anchors with Chuck Roberts and, among other stories, the two co-anchored the network's coverage of the war in Iraq in the spring of 2003.

Stouffer participated in the network's coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her reporting included unfolding events as the crisis moved from search-and-rescue mission to a war on terrorism. Previously, Stouffer co-anchored the morning news program Ahead of the Curve, which aired simultaneously on CNN/U.S. and CNNfn, CNN's former financial news network.

During Stouffer's tenure with CNN, she has anchored coverage of the post-election saga over the disputed presidential ballots in Florida and the ongoing developments in the Middle East crisis. She also participated in Headline News' millennium news coverage, reporting on first few times zones entering 2000.

Before working for CNN Worldwide, Stouffer was a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WSVN-TV in Miami from 1994-1996 and reported on the ValuJet crash in the Florida Everglades and Cuba's shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue planes. She also worked as a general assignment reporter from 1992-1994 at KMOL-TV in San Antonio, Texas where she covered, from day one, the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas.

Stouffer attended the University of the Incarnate Word on a Phi Beta Kappa scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in communication, graduating magna cum laude.