Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour

Amanpour at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Born January 12, 1958 (1958-01-12) (age 53)
London, England
Education University of Rhode Island
Occupation ABC anchor (2010–present)
CNN chief international correspondent (1992–2010)
Spouse(s) James Rubin (1998–present)
Children Darius Rubin
Years active 1983–present
Notable credit(s) This Week (ABC) anchor (2010–present)
Amanpour (CNN) anchor (2009–2010)
60 Minutes (CBS) reporter (1996–2005)

Christiane Amanpour, CBE (English pronunciation: /krɪstʃiˈɑːn ɑːmənˈpʊər/ ( listen); Persian: کریستین امان‌پور; born January 12, 1958) is anchor of ABC News's This Week and formerly chief international correspondent at CNN, where she worked for 27 years. She is a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).[1]

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Early years

Amanpour was born in London, England.[2] Amanpour was born to her Iranian father Mohammad, an airline executive, and her British mother, Patricia.[3] In Iran, the Amanpour family led a privileged life under the government of the Shah of Iran. Amanpour completed her primary education in Iran, and at the age of 11, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England. She attended New Hall School, an all-girls educational setting located in Chelmsford, Essex, England. Christiane returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began. She has stressed that they were not forced to leave the country, but were actually returning to England when Iraq invaded Iran. The family remained in England, finding it was too difficult to return to Iran.[4]

After her graduation from New Hall, Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During her time there, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, as an electronic graphics designer.[5] In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude with a bachelor of journalism degree.[6]

CNN

In 1983, she was hired by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, as an entry-level desk assistant. During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was able to land her first major assignment covering the Iran-Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.[7] In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt, Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time. Through this position, she was able to move up throughout the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNN's New York bureau.

Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking the network to a new level of news coverage. Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and many other conflict zones. Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, some viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied, "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."[8] Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars from parachuting into conflict areas.[9]

From 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent. She was also the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program (2009–2010). Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina. She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe to Africa and beyond, including Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others. After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

From 1996 to 2005, she was contracted by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in-depth international news reports a year as a special contributor. These reports garnered her a Peabody Award in 1998 (she had earlier been awarded one in 1993). Hewitt's successor Jeff Fager was not a fan of her work and terminated her contract.

She has had many memorable moments in her career, one of them being a telephone interview with Yasser Arafat during the siege on his compound in March 2002, during which Arafat hung up on her.[10]

Amanpour at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos

ABC News

On March 18, 2010, Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week. She said, “I’m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor This Week in the superb tradition started by David Brinkley is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love, and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.”[11] She hosted her first broadcast on August 1, 2010.

During her first two months as host, the ratings for This Week reached their lowest point since 2003.[12] On February 28, 2011, she interviewed Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi al-Gaddafi.[13][14]

Criticism

Amanpour was criticized by pro-Israel advocacy groups HonestReporting and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) for her CNN report "God's Warriors". It also referred to her report "God's Jewish Warriors" as "CNN's Abomination".[15]

HonestReporting also said in its critique "Hard on Jews, soft on Islam" that Amanpour's reporting contained "bias, inaccuracies and false moral equivalence".[16]

The report was criticized by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, a proudly pro-Israel organization based in Boston, as the most "poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory". Andrea Levin, the group director, has described Amanpour as "deceptive and manipulative".[17]

On 22nd December 1992, during war in Bosnia, she reported from Kiseljak, not far from Sarajevo. Kiseljak was in Croat hands, undamaged, well supplied with everything.

"While people in Sarajevo are dying from starvation, the Serbs are living here in plenty."[18]

On October 9, 1994, Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times criticized her coverage of the Bosnian War. Kinzer quoted a colleague’s description of Amanpour as she reported on a terrorist bombing in the marketplace Markale of the Bosnian city of Sarajevo:

"She was sitting in Belgrade when that marketplace massacre happened, and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it. There was no way she could have known that. She was assuming an omniscience which no journalist has."[19]

Nevertheless, Amanpour was proved right. In January 2004, prosecutors in the trial against Stanislav Galić, a Serb general in the siege of Sarajevo, introduced into evidence a report including the testimony of ammunition expert Berko Zečević. Working with two colleagues, Zečević's investigation revealed a total of six possible locations from which the shell in the first Markale massacre could have been fired, of which five were under VRS and one under ARBiH control. The ARBiH site in question was visible to UNPROFOR observers at the time, who reported that no shell was fired from that position. Zečević further reported that certain components of the projectile could only have been produced in one of two places, both of which were under the control of the Army of Republika Srpska. The court would eventually find Galić guilty beyond reasonable doubt of all five shellings prosecutors had charged him with, including Markale.[20]

Amanpour has commented on the criticism on lack of neutrality during war in the former Yugoslavia, stating:

"Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth."[21]

Amanpour has been criticized by the conservative Media Research Center for some of her favorable remarks about Democratic politicians.[22] In 1999, she said the following to then First Lady Hillary Clinton:

"A lot of the women that I meet from traveling overseas are very impressed by you and admire your dignity."[23]

Amanpour defended President Barack Obama against criticism over his being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009:

"I think it's overdone, this pushing back against his award. He's obviously done something very significant, and that is, after eight years in which the United States was really held in contempt around the world, the United States has now had a new relationship with the rest of the world."[24]

Personal life

Amanpour is a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) along with many other notable journalists.

Amanpour is married to James Rubin, a former Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. Their son, Darius John Rubin, was born in 2000. The family resides in New York City.

She shared a house on the east side of Providence with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and some of his friends while he was attending Brown University and she was attending the University of Rhode Island.[25]

Amanpour speaks English, Persian, and French fluently.

Appearances

Amanpour appeared in the Gilmore Girls as herself in the television series finale. Throughout the series, Amanpour was an inspiration to aspiring journalist Rory Gilmore. In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper's Bazaar magazine article entitled "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover".[26]

Amanpour played herself in newscasts in the films Iron Man 2 and Pink Panther 2.

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ IWMF website
  2. ^ "Christiane Amanpour's Biography". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour/biography-anchor-week-christiane-amanpour/story?id=11208824. Retrieved August 23, 2010. 
  3. ^ Time Europe Magazine - 60 Years of Heros
  4. ^ The Lesley Stahl Interview: Christiane Amanpour, at the Height of the Iranian Election Crisis
  5. ^ "CPJ Board of Directors". Committee to Protect Journalists. http://www.cpj.org/development/board.html#ca. 
  6. ^ Deborah White. "Profile of Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent". http://usliberals.about.com/od/thepressandjournalist1/p/Amanpour.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 
  7. ^ "Christiane Amanpour, CNN International Chief Correspondent". White. http://usliberals.about.com/od/thepressandjournalist1/p/Amanpour.htm. 
  8. ^ "Five Years Later, the Gulf War Story Is Still Being Told". New York Times. 1996-05-12. http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Coursetexts/gulf-war-arnett.html. 
  9. ^ "The Wooing Of Amanpour". Newsweek. 20 May 1996. http://www.newsweek.com/1996/05/19/the-wooing-of-amanpour.html. Retrieved 31 July 2010. 
  10. ^ "Israeli Troops Surround Arafat Compound". CNN. March 29, 2002. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/29/bn.26.html. Retrieved 2007-11-28. 
  11. ^ "Christiane Amanpour to join ABC News". CNN. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/18/christiane-amanpour-to-join-abc-news/?hpt=T2. Retrieved April 30, 2010. 
  12. ^ Krakauer, Steve (27 September 2010). "This Weak: Christiane Amanpour Leads ABC To Worst Ratings Since 2003". Mediaite. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-weak-amanpour-leads-abc-to-worst-ratings-since-2003/. Retrieved 27 September 2010. 
  13. ^ "'This Week' Transcript: Saif al-Islam and Saadi Gadhafi". This Week. February 27, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-saif-al-islam-saadi-gadhafi/story?id=13012239&page=4. 
  14. ^ Amanpour, Christiane (February 28, 2011). "'My People Love Me': Moammar Gadhafi Denies Demonstrations Against Him Anywhere in Libya". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/International/christiane-amanpour-interviews-libyas-moammar-gadhafi/story?id=13019942. 
  15. ^ God's Jewish Warriors — CNN's Abomination
  16. ^ CNN's "God's Warriors": Hard on Jews, Soft on Islam
  17. ^ Levin, Andrea. "Poisonously biased". Jerusalem Post, August 2007
  18. ^ WHO IS SPREADING DISINFORMATION, WHO IS TELLING ALL THE LIES
  19. ^ Stotsky, Steven (2007-10-04). Amanpour's Troubling Journalism.
  20. ^ PROSECUTOR v.STANISLAV GALIĆ International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia since 1991. United Nations.
  21. ^ Ferry, Julie (2007-08-15). 'What we do is really tough'. The Guardian, 15 August 2007.
  22. ^ Whitlock, Scott (29 July 2010). "A Profile in Bias: Christiane Amanpour, ABC's New Host of 'This Week'". NewsBusters. Media Research Center. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/07/28/profile-bias-christiane-amanpour-abcs-new-host-week. Retrieved 12 September 2010. 
  23. ^ "Transcript: Hillary Rodham Clinton Discusses Her Trip to Macedonia--CNN The World Today". CNN. 1999-05-14. 
  24. ^ "Transcript: American Morning". CNN. 2009-12-10. http://www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/10/ltm.02.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
  25. ^ "Transcript from the July 15, 2001 program of Larry King Weekend". CNN. July 15, 2001. http://157.166.226.115/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/15/lklw.00.html. 
  26. ^ Davis, Diane (July 16, 2009). "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover". StyleList. http://www.stylelist.com/2009/07/16/christiane-amanpour-gets-a-high-fashion-makeover/. 
  27. ^ "Previous Polk Award Winners". http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev90.html. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 
  28. ^ IWMF website http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=589&c=cijwinner
  29. ^ "George Foster Peabody Award Winners". http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/PeabodyWinnersBook.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
  30. ^ "Christiane Amanpour to Receive Goldsmith Career Award Ceremony to Highlight 10th Anniversary Celebration". 2002-03-08. Archived from the original on 2007-12-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20071218182005/http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/backup/pr_goldsmith_amanpour_030802.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 
  31. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58358. p. 7. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
  32. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 17 April 2011. 

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