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Christiane Amanpour, CNN
Chief International
Correspondent:Christiane
Amanpour is CNN Chief
International Correspondent and one of the most honoured TV journalists in
the US. She's also said to
be the world's highest-paid
correspondent.
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An Amanpour report validates a story's
importance. She's often given entree where other reporters are neither welcomed
nor allowed. She's an authority on Islam with extensive
Middle East connections. Bill Clinton calls her
the voice of humanity; critics in the Pentagon
tag her as overly emotional
and even biased.
On June 17, 2007, Amanpour was named by
Queen Elizabeth as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which is only
one step shy of knighthood.
Christiane Amanpour at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Hadda, near
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
On September 21, 2009, "Amanpour," a new, half-hour weeknight interview program debuted on
CNN. "I want this show to stir the global conscience," commented Christiane Amanpour.
Amanpour was in the Baghdad courtroom on October 19, 2005
when Saddam Hussein made his
first trial appearance,
and at Hussein's initial hearing in
2004.
Time magazine has called her the most influential foreign
correspondent since Edward R. Murrow.
Personal Data:Birth - January 12, 1958 in
LondonEducation - From age 11,
attended two Roman Catholic all-girls' schools in Great
Britain. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Rhode Island in 1983 with a
BA in Journalism.
Family - Married since 1998 to James (Jamie) Rubin, US State Department spokesman under
President Clinton; one son, Darius, born in 2000.
Many find it unusual that Amanpour, raised in Islamic Iran, married a man of the
Jewish faith tradition.
Growing Up Christiane Amanpour :
Born to Iranian airline executive Mohammed
Amanpour and his British wife, Patricia, her family
moved to Tehran soon after her birth. Christiane led a privileged life in Iran, and then at British boarding
schools. She studied journalism in London only because her sister backed
out of attending and couldn't obtain a tuition
refund. Her family fled Iran, and became refugees, in 1979 during the Islamic
Revolution. Shortly thereafter, Amanpour
moved to Rhode Island to attend college.
Christiane Amanpour's Early Career Years :
While a student, Amanpour interned at the Rhode Island NBC affiliate WJAR. After
graduation, she endured numerous network
rejections because she lacked "the right look."
She eventually landed an assistant's job on CNN's
international desk in Atlanta. "I arrived at CNN with a suitcase,
with my bicycle and with about 100 dollars." She
was transferred to Eastern Europe in 1986,
during the fall of Communism. It was
there that her reporting caught the attention of
CNN brass.
Christiane Amanpour as CNN Foreign Correspondent:
Amanpour was elevated to CNN
foreign correspondent in 1989, where she
reported on democratic revolutions in Eastern
Europe. She first attained widespread
acclaim for her riveting coverage of the
Persian Gulf War in 1990, followed by
award-winning reporting of the
conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Reporting from on board the USS JFK during the first gulf war,
1990/1991
Reporting from
Bosnia, 1998
Conducting an interview in an Afghan hospital, November 2001
Reporting from
the Iraq war, 2003
Covering the funeral of John Paul II, May 2005
Filming In The Footsteps of Bin Laden, October
2006
Reporting from
Northern Israel during conflict
between Israel and Hezbollah
, July 2006
On Larry King Live, July 2007
Overlooking the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, while filming for the programme God's Warriors, April 2007
Interviewing the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, March 2008
In Afghanistan for Generation Islam, March 2009At memorial site south of
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2008
Visiting genocide site in Rwanda, April 2007
Awards and Accolades, Partial List:
2000 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Broadcast Journalism
2002 Harvard's Goldsmith Career Award for Journalism
Two Emmy news/documentary awards
Two George Foster Peabody Awards for Broadcasting
Two George Polk Awards for Journalism
1994 Woman of the Year, New York Chapter of Women in
CableCourage in Journalism Award, International Women's Media
FoundationMajor role in two duPont
awards and a Golden Cable Ace award given to CNN
Amanpour in Peshawar, Pakistan
Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S., Christiane Amanpour and Mark Nelson, vice president and senior executive
producer for CNN Productions at the Television Critics Association (TCA)
CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour inspires Irshad, other young journalists and students from Miss Porter's School for Girls at the Moral Courage Conversations in New York City -
February 2009.
In one of the issues of Harper’s
Bazaar they feature one of
the most amazing
women on TV, Christiane
Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, left, with her husband, James
Rubin, and son, Darius, attend the annual Salute to Women In Sports
Awards dinner Tuesday, Oct. 14,
2008, in New York.
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