Christiane Amanpour made history on Wednesday at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University by publicly criticizing the network’s Donald Trump town hall. She was speaking to the graduating class during the commencement ceremony.
Amanpour detailed a conversation she had about the event with CNN CEO Chris Licht in her speech, which was made more widely known by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy in the most recent Reliable Sources newsletter. She then used her speech in part to refute the main claims made by Licht and other CNN officials to support the town hall in the face of criticism.
Amanpour began her lecture by reminding graduates that journalism is, at its foundation, “a public service,” and that it is, above all, “about the truth.” Continuing on these themes, she later stated that a journalist’s responsibility is “to expose injustices, inequities, and human rights abuses, and to give the voiceless their chance to be seen and heard, and especially to speak truth to power.”
Here’s all you need to know about Christiane Amanpour:
Christiane Amanpour net worth-
Christiane Amanpour has an estimated net worth of $18 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth
Christiane Amanpour age-
Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958, in the West London neighborhood of Ealing. She is 65 years old.
Christiane Amanpour relationship-
Amanpour tied the knot to James Rubin, a former US assistant secretary of state who served as the State Department’s spokesperson and informal adviser to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former president Barack Obama. The two were married from 1998 to 2018.
In 2000, they welcomed their son, Darius John Rubin. They had been residing in London from the year 2000 before relocating to New York City in 2010, when they rented a home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Amanpour and Rubin made the divorce announcement in July 2018.
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Christiane Amanpour career–
She was employed by CNN in 1983 as a desk assistant on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia. She was given the responsibility of working in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, in 1989, when she covered the democratic uprisings that were happening at the time in Eastern Europe.
Amanpour’s coverage of the Persian Gulf War after Iraq occupied Kuwait in 1990 earned her widespread attention and elevated CNN’s news coverage. During the Gulf and Bosnian conflicts, Amanpour developed a reputation for being fearless and for reporting from dangerous locations.
Amanpour served as CNN’s chief international correspondent from 1992 to 2010 and served as the host of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired from 2009 to 2010.
On December 13, 2011, ABC announced that Amanpour would return to CNN International, where she had previously spent 27 years as an anchor of ABC News’ This Week, and would continue to serve as a reporter for ABC News.
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Christiane Amanpour family–
Her father was from Tehran and was Iranian. Amanpour was brought up in Tehran till she was 11 years old. Her mother was a Roman Catholic, and her father was a Shi’ite Muslim.
