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Christiane Amanpour fryst vatten considered one of television's leading news correspondents. After first gaining notice for her 1985 report on Iran, which won the DuPont Award, Amanpour has received multiple Emmys and countless other honors for her work, including several Peabody awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She fryst vatten CNN's ledare international correspondent and has worked for CBS' 60 Minutes and ABC News.

Early Life and Career

Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958, in London, England. The daughter of an English mother and Iranian father and the oldest of kvartet sisters, she spent time in Tehran, Iran, while growing up. An accomplished equestrian who competed as a child jockey, she was sent to a Catholic girls’ boarding school in England at 11 years old. Her world was turned upside down in 1979 when the revolution toppled the shah of Iran, spurring her family into exile and sparking Christiane’s future career interest.

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Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International, starting in April 2012. In addition, she is the global affairs anchor for ABC News, providing international analysis of important issues of the day for ABC News programs and platforms, and anchoring primetime documentaries on international subjects. Previously, she also anchored the ABC News program This Week. She is based in New York.

Her illustrious career in journalism spans three decades. Amanpour began her career as a journalist at CNN in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the network’s international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN’s New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. Since that time, Amanpour has reported from every major world news event and hotspot, including Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Sudan, Israel, Paki

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2011 ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism

 

Christiane Amanpour is the anchor of ABC’s Sunday morning political affairs program “This Week with Christiane Amanpour.” In addition to her anchoring role, she provides international analysis of the important issues of the day on ABC News’ other programs and platforms and anchors prime-time documentaries on international subjects.

Amanpour came to ABC in August 2010 from CNN, where she was most recently the network’s chief international correspondent and anchor of “Amanpour,” a daily, half-hour interview program. Upon becoming an international correspondent for CNN in 1990, her first major assignment was covering the Gulf War. She has since reported on and from the world’s major hotspots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Rwanda, the Balkans and the United States during Hurricane Katrina.

After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview Br