Meet Pervaiz

My Work

Pervaiz's career has toggled the worlds of law enforcement and food. Prior to joining CNN in 2019, Pervaiz was a Senior Editor and Writer at The Daily Beast where he was the first to report the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein by federal authorities, and was part of a team nominated for awards for its Epstein coverage. He has also worked as a food writer, restaurant critic and TV show host at Newsday, where his web series "Feed Me" won Emmy and IACP awards, and a law-enforcement reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he worked on teams that covered the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner on Staten Island, the Boston Bombings and the Sandy Hook shootings.

Pervaiz began his career as a reporter at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a culinary arts degree from the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) in Manhattan. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram: @pervaizistan.