Amanda Jackson - Writer/Producer, CNN Social Discovery
Amanda Jackson
Writer/Producer, CNN Social Discovery
Amanda uses a variety of social media platforms to newsgather for the network and produces content on trending topics. She loves feel-good stories and ones about overcoming adversity.
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Strong storms and tornadoes leave at least 3 dead and destroy buildings in Indiana and Ohio
Mar 15, 2024
Damaging storms and tornadoes swept through Indiana and Ohio on Thursday evening, leaving at least three people dead, destroying parts of towns and prompting search and rescue efforts, officials said.
A girl is in critical condition after a fight caught on video shows another girl slamming her head to the ground repeatedly
Mar 15, 2024
A Missouri girl was critically injured with a severe head injury after a fight captured on video near Hazelwood East High School, the St. Louis County Police Department said.
Dozens of artists and speakers pull out of SXSW festival in protest of military and defense industry sponsorships
Mar 13, 2024
Dozens of performers and speakers have canceled appearances at the ongoing South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, in protest of event sponsorship from by the US military and defense companies amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
Sperm whale beached off Florida’s Gulf Coast dies, officials say
Mar 11, 2024
A sperm whale beached off the coast of Venice, Florida, has died following attempts to save it, officials said Monday.
Man arrested after DNA helps crack cold case killing nearly 40 years later as police link him to another case
Mar 9, 2024
For more than 35 years, two families in Virginia have been left without knowing who brutally killed a beloved member of each of their families.
The TSA’s new experiment: Self-service security checks
Mar 7, 2024
Self-checkout annoys many grocery shoppers and causes problems that are prompting numerous major retailers to pull back on using it. But that’s not stopping the Transportation Security Administration from testing a self-service screening system at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas later this month.
3 killed in fiery small-plane crash at mobile home park in Clearwater, Florida, officials say
Mar 5, 2024
A preliminary report published Friday morning shows three people were killed Thursday evening in a fiery crash when a small plane smashed into a mobile home park in Clearwater, Florida.
American Airlines flight forced to return to Albuquerque after a man tried to open the emergency exit, passengers say
Feb 21, 2024
An American Airlines flight was forced to turn around shortly after takeoff from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tuesday after a man tried to open one of the emergency exits, according to passengers on the plane.
‘They’re on the way, buddy,’ Good Samaritan reassures man trapped in wrecked truck during 911 call
Dec 28, 2023
While on the phone with an emergency dispatcher, Nivardo Delatorre reassured a driver pinned in his wrecked pickup truck for days that help was on the way.
Fishermen spotted something shiny near a creek. It was the first step toward a ‘miracle’
Dec 27, 2023
The two men had gone out the day after Christmas, scouting for fishing holes at a creek in northwest Indiana, when something shiny in the distance caught their attention.
Here’s how to track Santa around the world, thanks to NORAD
Dec 24, 2023
Santa Claus has packed his sleigh with toys for all the good kids and he has made sure the reindeer are secured for takeoff. Now, they are traveling around the world to visit millions of households.
Israel festival revelers shot at point-blank range, video shows
Oct 10, 2023
Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals.
In Texas, water levels are so low a rarely-seen underwater cave and century-old ruins have appeared
Oct 1, 2023
Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing.
Man shot at protest against plans to reinstall controversial New Mexico conquistador statue
Sep 30, 2023
A man was shot Thursday during a protest against plans to reinstall a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador in northern New Mexico, police say.
