Bernadette Tuazon is the director of photography at CNN Digital, where she oversees coverage of breaking news and features. She sets the standards for photography at CNN, including setting guardrails against AI-generated images. Tuazon manages a team of photo editors spread across Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, and London.

Her team has won Pictures of the Year International’s Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award in 2022 and 2024, the 2024 EPPY Award for Best Photojournalism, the Deadline Club Award for Feature Photography in 2023, the 2019 and 2020 Webby Awards for Best Use of Photography, and the 2020 Visa d’or Daily Press Award, among several other awards over the years.

Before joining CNN, Tuazon was a senior photo editor for the Associated Press for more than two decades. There, she covered breaking news, sports and features, and worked with photographers on a variety of multimedia projects. While at the AP, Tuazon was part of the team who was awarded the 2010 Edward R. Murrow Award for the video news documentary “Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire.” She was also an official honoree at the Webby Awards for the 2009 Depth of Field series and for a 2008 elections time-lapse project.

Tuazon has also served as a juror for AAJA and Visa Pour I’Image and as a reviewer for the New York Portfolio Review and Vogue International. In 2018, she was a mentor for Women Photograph. Tuazon studied General and International Studies at Columbia University in New York and graduated cum laude with a journalism degree from the University of the Philippines. She currently lives in New York with her husband, two girls, and their excitable 100-pound Goldendoodle.