Abigail Bassett is a freelance journalist and content manager, a former CNN Senior Producer, a writer, an editorial manager, a producer, and a conference and television host whose work has appeared in publications like Elle Magazine, National Geographic, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch, The Verge, Maxim, Forbes, Fortune, Money Magazine, Yahoo, Automobile Magazine, Autoweek, Encyclopedia Britannica, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, SlickDeals, KBB, Bentley Magazine, Shondaland, CNET, and on CNN. She has also hosted large scale conference events for Reuters , the United States Small Business Administration, the Electrify Expo, and JBL. She is the owner of CNTRL Media, LLC.

Abigail currently covers all things travel, tech, health & wellness, social and climate justice, beauty, luxury & lifestyle, personal finance, and automotive for top-tier outlets. She hosts and speaks on large-scale panels in conjunction with Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and other major publications and corporations, and she ghostwrites ebooks, white papers, and regular thought leadership pieces for c-suite executives.  Abigail is currently a World Car Awards Juror and has been on the jury for the past four years. She also teaches yoga in the Los Angeles area.

Abigail not only brings vast experience as a highly-skilled journalist and writer to her clients, but she also spent many years working for large and small corporations, training on-air talent and CEOs on media appearances, and has first-hand knowledge of corporate America, commerce, business, and finance.

She is the former Senior Director of Video, Photo, and Social Media at Edmunds, the car shopping site where she strategically built, implemented, and grew, a video and social media strategy that worked across Edmunds, multiple social media platforms and various video platforms. Under Abigail’s direction, Edmunds’ YouTube watch time increased by nearly 250%, average view duration jumped by 62%, and views increased by more than 110% in just six months.  Even more importantly, YouTube subscribers grew by more than 500% in less than a year when she implemented a simple, clear, regular strategy.

At Edmunds, Abigail managed a full-time staff of twelve people, growing it from just five employees in less than a year. She also managed a $600,000 annual budget that included capital expenditures, systems, employees, and boosting content.

Before Edmunds, Abigail was a full-time freelancer. While she wrote for major outlets, she has also helped create and launch the website for the men’s skincare line, Tenzing Skincare, and spent a year as the Editorial Director for a tech start-up specializing in wine and spirits delivery, Thirstie, merging the worlds of marketing and sell-through content into shareable, creative, approachable, and compelling content.

She’s also a ghostwriter for Fortune 500 CEOs, and creates major company white papers and ebooks for them, as well.

Additionally, Abigail has hosted panels at the TriBeCa Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Awards,  Fast Company- Hydrafacial Glimpse Conference, and the Harman Tech Forum, talking with technology and start-up thought leaders about The Changing Face of Innovation, the intersection of wellness and technology, and the future of AI and machine learning in real-world applications. She has hosted conferences for Fast Company and Inc. sitting down with CEOs and founders in the wellness space, given presentations to college journalism students as a guest speaker, and been cited as an expert in her field.

Her passion is telling unique stories that have an impact on the world. She uses a variety of media and takes visitors and viewers places that they’ve never been–whether it’s into the cockpit of a rare supercar, under the hood of brand new technology, inside an exclusive home or hotel, or behind the scenes of a fashionable event.

She is the owner and CEO of  CNTRL Media, LLC, a company providing content strategy, content creation and management,  and content curation to major brands. She has managed remote staffs as large as 50 people.

Prior to launching her business, Abigail was a Senior Producer at CNN Business, the premier business news website for CNN.

As a Senior Producer, she managed a team of freelance and full-time video producers and writers all over the world, who created compelling daily and weekly business news video for the Web. She worked with everything from breaking news to feature content and across platforms with CNN Networks, CNN.com, Fortune, and Money Magazine to increase the dimension and breadth of the CNNMoney content and boost brand awareness while creating a compelling and user-friendly video experience for visitors.

Abigail spearheaded the creation of CNNMoney’s automotive, homes, and luxury video content and was featured in Vanity Fair as a Top 10 Auto Journalist.

Before becoming a Senior Producer, Abigail was a Digital Video Producer with CNNMoney (now CNN Business), establishing the video brand online through engaging online business news video content—shooting, writing, editing, and hosting any number of daily online spots. She single-handedly drove video page views up more than 200% in less than a year.

Abigail also spent considerable time a television news producer with CNN, covering stories ranging from personal finance to politics; national and international disasters to war coverage. She has contributed to coverage on major news stories, including the second Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, the Pope’s death, and President Reagan’s funeral. She began her career at CNN as an Editorial Producer for Lou Dobbs Tonight, booking and interviewing major world leaders on numerous topics. During her time there, she earned an Emmy for contributing to the Broken Borders series.

Before her work at CNN, Abigail worked with Barbara Walters as an Associate Producer on The Barbara Walters Specials. She has also worked on several talk show and reality show pilots, as well as the Academy Award-winning, Martin Scorsese film,  Gangs of New York.

She’s an active Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook user.

Abigail is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School For Communications in Los Angeles.

She travels everywhere and doesn’t necessarily consider herself a resident of any one place. When she is home in Los Angeles, she teaches yoga,  writes, does HIIT training, works on her two 1980s era Volvo station wagons, camps, swims, and attempts to meditate (it’s a work in progress).

For some of Abigail’s on-air work, check out the video below: