Jonathan Mann

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Jonathan Mann (born July 16, 1960 in Montreal ) is a Canadian journalist . Mann is best known as a correspondent and presenter for the American news channel CNN . As the presenter of the program Political Mann and correspondent for other programs, he was one of the most important companions of the US presidential election campaign in 2016.

Life and work

As a child, Mann attended the Jewish People's School in Montreal, where he learned Hebrew and Yiddish . Since he spent his youth in the French-speaking part of Canada, he is also fluent in French. After graduating from school, Mann began studying philosophy at York University in Toronto , from which he completed a bachelor's degree.

He first gained notoriety when he reported as a freelance journalist from India on the consequences of the murder of Indira Gandhi in 1984 . Mann made headlines when he overruled a travel ban imposed by the Indian government that banned foreigners from entering Punjab Province to report from there. Because of this excess, Mann was finally arrested by Indian police and interned in Amritsar . After numerous international media reported on the case and the Canadian government intervened in his favor with the Indian government, Mann was released from custody a week later. In the following years he worked as a reporter for radio stations such as CBC Radio and NBC Radio as well as for the newspapers United Press International and Montreal Gazette .

In the 1980s, Mann became the first Paris correspondent for the US news channel CNN. From the French capital, he reported not only on major political events such as elections, but also on social issues, French cuisine and culture. The most famous events that Mann reported on in the course of his further career as a correspondent around the world include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the transformation of the South African apartheid regime into a democratic republic, the release of South African politician Nelson Mandela and the rise of Vladimir Putin in Russia .

Since the late 1990s, Mann has been the presenter for CNN of the December program The Prize for Peace , in which he meets the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and interviews them live. He was later brought to CNN's headquarters in Atlanta , where he has been managing different broadcast formats for several years.

Mann currently appears every Friday as the presenter of the humorous political program Political Mann . The half-hour broadcast, every Friday on CNN International, deals with current political issues, but presented in a very humorous way. In August and September 2008, he also reported as a correspondent for the Democratic and Republican party conferences during the US presidential campaign.

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