Christiane Amanpour

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Christiane Amanpour (2015)

Christiane M. Amanpour , CBE ( Persian کریستیان امانپور Kristiāne Amānpur ; * January 12, 1958 in London ) is a British-Iranian journalist . She became known as the international chief correspondent for the news channel CNN .

Life

Amanpour has an Iranian father and a British mother who moved back to Tehran , Iran , immediately after their birth in London , where they lived a privileged life under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . At the age of 11 she was sent to a boarding school in London and 10 years later, in 1979, her parents had to flee Iran due to the Islamic Revolution .

She moved to the United States to study journalism and after graduation she started working for CNN's London office in 1983. In 1989 she moved to Frankfurt am Main to report on the wave of democratization that had gripped Eastern Europe . However, it was her 1990 coverage of the Gulf War that made her popular. She later reported on the Bosnian War and other conflict areas in the world. From 1996 to 2005 she also had a contract as a reporter for 60 Minutes .

Amanpour was the world's highest paid reporter in 2006 and has won numerous awards, including a. the Peabody Award in 1993 and 1998.

From 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent. She reported from the main crisis points on earth such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, the Balkans and from the USA during Hurricane Katrina .

She interviewed Iranian politicians such as Mohammad Chātami , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rohani . After the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, she was the first correspondent with interviews with Tony Blair , Jacques Chirac and Pervez Musharraf . More recent interlocutors were Angela Merkel , Hillary Clinton , Nicolás Maduro and Muammar al-Gaddafi . The Greek ex-King Constantine II , the son of the former Shah of Iran, Cyrus Reza Pahlavi , and actress Angelina Jolie were also guests.

On the 81st birthday of the British Queen Elizabeth II , she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007.

In 2010 she moved to the news department of ABC . In 2012 she moved back to CNN.

Others

In 1998 Christiane Amanpour married James Rubin , the press secretary for the US State Department under President Bill Clinton and advisor to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. She has a sister, Lizzy Amanpour, who works as a producer for the UK television channel Channel 4 .

In the series finale of the US television series Gilmore Girls , which aired on May 15, 2007, Amanpour had a guest appearance as herself: Since the first season, she had been the great idol of the fictional main character Rory Gilmore, played by Alexis Bledel . Through Amanpour's guest appearance, the two finally met in the series. She also played a role in Iron Man 2 .

Awards

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suzanne Hoppough: # 79 Christiane Amanpour , forbes.com - The 100 Most Powerful Women (accessed May 5, 2009)
  2. ↑ cnnasiapacific.com: CNN'S CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR AWARDED CBE IN QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S BIRTHDAY HONORS LIST ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release, accessed May 5, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cnnasiapacific.com
  3. ↑ CNN.com: Christiane Amanpour joins ABC News , CNN.com, accessed May 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Amanpour, Christiane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amanpour, Christiane M .; کریستیان امانپور (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Iranian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London