CNN producer and writer Nina Ridge dies at 38

Nina Ridge, 38, a writer and producer for CNN International in Atlanta, Ga., died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 9. She was a non-resident member of the National Press Club since August 2017.

Ms. Ridge was born in Tempe, Ariz., and grew up in the Houston, Texas, area. She worked at the Houston-based American Society of Karate prior to attending the University of Houston where in 2009 she earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She interned at the Houston Fox TV channel, where she later was an assignment editor, and briefly at the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce before becoming a producer for Al Jazeera English. 

Prior joining CNN, she worked as a writer and producer for TRT World, an English-language broadcasting news channel in Istanbul, Turkey.