Connie Watson is CBC Radio News Latin America correspondent, based in Mexico City. She recently completed a lengthy and dangerous posting in Iraq. Previously, she reported from Pakistan and Afghanistan, contributing extensively to CBC Radio's ground-breaking specials, Afghanistan: The Sky Cries Blood and Afghanistan: Threads of Hope. The former won a gold medal at the New York Festival and the prestigious United Nations award for international reporting.
Watson has reported extensively on environmental and scientific issues. Over the past 5 years, she was based in Calgary, travelling throughout the North American west and into the Arctic, to produce stories and documentaries on everything from the effects of global warming to the controversy over oil and gas exploration.
Prior to that, Watson worked as a national political reporter in CBC Radio's Parliamentary Bureau. She specialized in health and legal affairs as well as agricultural and environmental issues. She has also worked as a documentary producer for CBC Radio. She was foreign correspondent for NBC in London, England prior to joining the CBC.
Watson was born and raised in northern Alberta's Peace River country. She has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Chile with the FOCAL fellowship.