Matthew Chance Biography

Matthew Chance is a British news reporter and a correspondent working for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined CNN in the year 2001.

Matthew Chance Age

Chance is 52 years old as of 2022. He was born in March 1970.

Matthew Chance Height

Chance stands at the height of approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall.

Matthew Chance Family

Chance has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Chance has any siblings.

Matthew Chance Wife

Chance is very private about his personal life, therefore, it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of Sample being in any past relationship with anyone.

Matthew Chance’s Net Worth

Chance has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$5 Million which he has earned through his successful career as a journalist.

Matthew Chance Salary

Chance earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.

Matthew Chance Education

Chance is a proud graduate of the University of London. He also graduated from the University’s School of Oriental and African Studies with a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and art.

Matthew ChanceCareer

Chance works at CNN  as a senior international correspondent based in Moscow. He has covered major stories for CNN’s global news network from Afghanistan, Russia and Chechnya, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East for more than 20 years. Matthew has also had some interviews with many current and former world leaders including Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, former Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

Chance has recently reported from Ukraine on the Russian invasion. He was reporting live on CNN from Kyiv when the invasion started with Russian airstrikes around the Ukrainian capital. Additionally, Matthew has also reported live a witness of the aftermath of a fierce and deadly battle on the outskirts of Kyiv, and as an intense firefight broke out between Ukrainian and Russian forces at the Antonov airbase.

He obtained an exclusive interview with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in his bunker in Kyiv, due to the Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities escalated. Previously, in April 2021 he interviewed   Zelenksy while on a tour of the front lines in Donbas, where he gained unprecedented access to the Ukrainian president as he warned that a Russian invasion was a very real possibility.

Moreover, he reported from Belarus last year when many migrants from war-torn countries like Iraq and Syria tried fiercely to cross into Poland. He spent some days on the grounds, getting hit by a water cannon as violence erupted along the Belarus-Poland border and getting exclusive access to a makeshift migrant camp at Bruzgi.

Chance also investigated an elaborate intelligence sting operation by Ukraine to lure alleged war criminals out of Russia to face prosecution for atrocities committed in eastern Ukraine where separatists backed by Moscow have been fighting for years. CNN’s reports were denied by Ukraine, but unfortunately, the country’s ruling party admitted it was a Ukrainian operation.

In August 2011  he was one of the journalists held at the Rixos al Nasr hotel in Tripoli, Libya, by the forces of Colonel Gaddafi. Chance has also reported as the International Committee of the Red Cross finally evacuated the detainees on Twitter throughout the period of his capture.

He was among the people who led the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict, reporting from the frontlines during CNN’s coverage. Together with his team, Matthew was the only television correspondent to cross from the devastated capital of the South Ossetia war zone, Georgian to Russian territory and file reports from Tskhinvali. Chance secured an exclusive interview with Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister the network’s first in eight years. In addition to that, he had a sit-down one-on-one interview with Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president.

In 2008, he reported on the military attacks on the city and the siege of the landmark Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India. He also covered the scene of the London bombings in July and carried out investigative reporting on the terrorists responsible for the catastrophe in 2005. In December 2004 he reported on the Tsunami tragedy from Phuket where he documented heartbreaking stories of tourists from 27 nations caught in the disaster.

Chance also reported the Beslan school siege in September in Russia, when344 civilians perished in the three-da standoff between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels In October 2002, he covered the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, in which Chechen rebels held captive nearly 800 people. His coverage documented how Russian special forces pumped lethal gas into the theatre auditorium to subdue the hostage-takers before storming in.

Moreover, he has traveled repeatedly to Chechnya,  where a bitter war continues unabated between Russian troops and separatist rebels. Matthew also reported extensively from Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 war in the Middle East. Furthermore, he also spent months documenting the bloodshed and hardships felt by both sides in the Palestinian- Israeli conflict, from suicide attacks against Israelis from Palestinians to the impact of that country’s military action in the occupied territories.

Chance was the first journalist to interview Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, after Israeli troops lifted a siege on his Ramallah in May 2002. In the same month, he covered the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Matthew covered the disengagement of Israel from Gaza in 2005. Additionally, he returned to the region to cover the story of the frontlines in the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah in 2007.

Furthermore, he flew to the central Asian country of Kazakhstan to interview General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president due to the tensions simmering between India and Pakistan. During the interview, General Musharraf clarified his policy on the use of nuclear weapons. In October 2001 he reported from Northern Afghanistan.

He was the first CNN correspondent, and one of the first Western reporters, to arrive in the city, entering the Afghan capital on foot, and As Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance forces. In addition to that reported on the emotional outpouring as the people of Kabul reacted to the departure of the Taliban.

Prior to working for CNN, he spent 5 years as a freelance correspondent based in Sri Lanka, Bangkok, and London. He covered some events on behalf of CNN including the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the refugee crisis in Kosovo, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the violence in East Timor.

Moreover, he spent almost 18 months in Russia, Chechnya reporting for CNN, and reported extensively on the troubles in Chechnya. Before that,  Matthew was working at BBC World Service in London as a broadcast journalist.

Matthew Chance Social Media Platforms

He is active on his social media accounts and is often seen posting on his Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. He has over 85K followers on his Twitter accounts.