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National Judges: Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour  Christiane Amanpour is the first Livingston laureate to be elected to its panel of judges. CNN’s chief international correspondent has reported on international crises from many of the world’s hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans. Her assignments have ranged from exclusive interviews with world leaders to reporting on the human consequences of natural disasters or covering events from the heart of war zones. She has received numerous awards for her work, particularly for her coverage of conflicts in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. Recently, Amanpour has worked on the production of a series of long-form programs that have aired across the CNN networks. In 2007 she presented two series including the Peabody award-winning series on the world’s three leading monotheistic religions and their defenders, ‘God’s Warriors,’ as well as an in-depth examination of the growing Islamic unrest in the UK in ‘The War Within.’ In 2006 Amanpour presented, ‘Where Have All The Parents Gone?’ a film examining the plight of the more than one million children orphaned to AIDS in Kenya and a two-hour exploration of the life of the world’s most wanted terrorist, ‘In the Footsteps of Bin Laden.’ For her reporting from the Balkans, Amanpour received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Her list of prizes chronicle the world’s war zones — a Sigma Chi (Society of Professional Journalists) for Zaire coverage, one George Polk for Afghanistan; and a second for Bosnia. She has also won two other Peabody’s, nine Emmys, a Nymphe d’Honneur from the Monte Carlo Television Festival and led CNN to two DuPont- Columbia Awards. Her documentary ‘In the Footsteps of Bin Laden’ won the Sigma Delta Chi award given by the Society of Professional Journalists in the U.S. and Amanpour was also recently named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, an honor which recognizes significant contributions to journalism. In 2007, Amanpour was also awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. CBE is the second-highest honor that can be given out by the Queen; second only to a knighthood. The title was awarded to Amanpour “for services to journalism.” |
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