Christiane Amanpour
born 12 January 1958 to Mr. Mahmoud Amanpour an Iranian and her mother Patricia a British. She is fluent in English and Persian, known for her quintessentiality on interviews at CNN and her steadfastness in compassionate journalism has grafted her personality at the echelons of professional newsmen.

Christiane Amanpour was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Argentina’s first elected female President, Fernandez de Kirchner including Moammar Gadhafi, Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring and our own President M. Buhari

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. In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude(means: with "the Highest honor" can be liken to first class). with a B.A. degree in journalism.
Though initially facing resistance from being put on the air due to her accent and dark hair, she first gained notice for her 1985 report on her home nation of Iran, winning the DuPont Award. But it was her historical coverage of the Bosnian crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s that helped make her the internationally recognized correspondent she is today. The world also tuned in to watch her reports during the first war with Iraq, with Amanpour covering other troubled spots as well that included Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, and Afghanistan, among other regions.

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 other conflict zones. Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, 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. Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.

Amanpour has received over forty awards and several recognition worldwide, in 2007 she was the Persian Woman of the Year, Forbes named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". The Feminist eZine puts her as the fifth most influential woman, she’s won Peabody Awards, Emmys, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and, most recently, the CBE, or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, from Queen Elizabeth II.

Christiane Amanpour’s long list of awards and honors is as impressive as it is humbling. The reporting for which Amanpour has been so extensively honored is incisive and hard-hitting, and her commitment to the public’s right to information is unswerving. And yet, she herself is impressively humble, and this humility makes her all the more familiar and engaging. This month, IDA honors her with the Courage Under Fire Award for demonstrating conspicuous bravery and venturing into dangerous territory to pursue and report the truth.

Amanpour explains that danger is not the only threat to her or her profession but “Turn on any station, any radio, any dial and look at the quantity of sensationalism, tabloidism, opinion––much of which is simply ignorance and personal opinion-based, often not on intellectual analysis but based on personal agendas. I personally think that does a disservice to civil society and democracy. If the public cannot expect to get fact-based journalism and intelligent analysis and only relies on somebody’s opinion masquerading as news, that’s a disservice. And that is the definition of journalism in decline."

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

"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."

"Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital"

By Mr. Successful.

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