Mobile
Amanpour quits CNN
Chris Forrester ©RapidTVNews | 21-03-2010
Star reporter Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN after 20 years at the channel to join ABC News as moderator of its Sunday public affairs program This Week beginning in August. Amanpour will replace George Stephanopoulos who left This Week last December to join Good Morning America.
Amanpour reportedly broke the news to the staff of her CNN program on Thursday. An e-mail to ABC News staff described Amanpour as a "respected journalist" with a "deep commitment to bringing news of the world to the American people." Amanpour is leaving CNN only seven months into her new CNN International show. She joined CNN as an assignment desk assistant in 1983.
In an e-mail to CNN staff, Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, wished Amanpour well in her "new opportunity...Since 1990 when Christiane became a CNN international correspondent, she has covered the defining news events of our time," Walton wrote. "Her work burnished our news brand and gave it authority. In turn, the CNN imprimatur opened doors for her around the world and provided a global platform for the intelligent, courageous, principled reporting that is her signature."
© Rapid TV News 2010
