CNN Senior Producer Dies While on Vacation

The CNN family is mourning the loss of Matt Null, a morning show senior producer who died Monday while on vacation with friends overseas.

For the last 3 years, Null was senior producer of Early Start. Before that he was a producer for FNC’s On the Record with Greta Van Susteren

Christine Romans, who reported the news on Early Start this morning, called Null “a rising star at CNN.”

“He is someone who really made a difference in the world through his job,” she added.

Before joining Fox News in 2012, Null worked his way through the local TV news ranks, at KRON in San Francisco, WSVN in Miami, WFTS in Tampa, among others. Null, 34, was in Barcelona when he died. A cause of death has not been revealed.