Two words: kick ass. That's Christiane Amanpour. She's a woman whose bold, adventuresome, battle zone crazy and over 50 Amanpour covers the hottest, most controversial topics and regions out there... Bosnia, Palestine, Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan to name a few. Bullets, mortar and genocide really don't seem to be a problem for the woman. And what's better, she doesn't mind sniffing around and asking big honchos about it either.
Amanpour is the kind of lady who would mortify your grandmother at the dinner table...she loves the two subjects you can never talk about but are so delicious...religion and politics.
So being this big journalist superstar--she's the chief international correspondent for CNN and before that reported for 60 Minutes---you would think she'd have an internet footprint a mile-long. And what do you know? Yep. She does. Pictures, videos and biography entries about her bust up the internet.
Her CNN bio with her awards and recognitions a mile long:
"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 and Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat 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.
Her body of work has earned an inaugural Television Academy Honor, nine News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow award and other major journalism awards as well as honorary degrees from The American University of Paris, Georgetown University, New York University, Smith College, Emory University and the University of Michigan.
In 2007, Amanpour was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her 'highly distinguished, innovative contribution' to the field of journalism. In 1998, the City of Sarajevo named her an honorary citizen for her 'personal contribution to spreading the truth' during the Bosnia war from 1992 to 1995. "
George Stephanopoulos interviews her about elections and work:
Amanpour on Colbert Report:
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And of course..clips of some of her work...
She's all over the place and for good reason. She's a great journalist.
Interestingly enough, if you'll notice, she's on the internet in a completely professional way. The only personal information I could out about her was on wikipedia...and we all know how reliable that can be...which said she had a son and was married to a former employee of the State Department.
That of course will be changing..but does it really matter? Um. Probably not. As far as I'm concerned almost no personal information on the internet about Amanpour would deter me from watching her. I mean, how can you beat a 50 year-old balls out woman who runs into war zones and calls our major world leaders?
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