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Jennifer Baskerville is a Senior Director at Qorvis Communications specializing in communications and media strategy.  She helps lead media relations for client teams including foreign governments and those in the entertainment and technology sectors.  

Baskerville works with a variety of clients in the company’s media training center, including politicians, businesspeople from professional and trade associations, non-profit organizations, government officials, and corporate executives.  She leverages her years of experience as a journalist to assist these professionals with delivering information in a straight forward, impactful way that helps ensure that their message is understood.

She also works with pro bono client YouthAIDS, an international program which works on a global level to educate and protect youth from HIV/AIDS.

Baskerville came to Qorvis from CNN’s Washington bureau where she covered foreign affairs, politics and legal issues.

Pertinent Background & Relationships

• An award winning journalist with more than 10 years of experience.
• As a CNN producer she participated in coverage of major national and international stories, including Presidential campaigns and elections, September 11th terror attacks and the Iraq War.
• Baskerville won an Emmy award for her work in CNN’s coverage of the September 11th terror attacks.
• Prior to joining CNN she worked at FOX News Channel, Nightline and WUSA-TV.

Education

Baskerville received her B.S. in Communications from James Madison University and graduated magna cum laude