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Early life
Lee was born in Wyoming, USA. Lee graduated in 2007 from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He also received certificates in Arabic and Islamic Studies from ASU. He was also awarded to the Carnegie Knight Middle East Journalism Scholarship. In 2008, Lee received a Fulbright scholarship to Egypt.
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Career
Lee began working for CNN after a church bombing in Alexandria, Egypt on New Year’s Eve 2010. One of Lee’s Tweets during the January 25 Revolution is cited in the book, A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters by Kate Bussmann.
While covering the Libyan Revolution of 2011, Lee was injured in Sirte by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that exploded next to him. It killed an ambulance driver and sent shrapnel into his leg.
During the 2013-15 detention of Al-Jazeera journalists by Egypt, CNN’s Lee reported several times on the Al Jazeera English news channel in a show of solidarity with the imprisoned journalists.
Awards
Lee’s work has earned him an Emmy, the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Tom Renner Award, and a Peabody for CNN’s coverage in Libya and Egypt.