{"id":70370,"date":"2004-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/cnns-prize-winning-correspondent-christiane-amanpour-to-speak-about-hunger-live-by-satellite\/"},"modified":"2004-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"cnns-prize-winning-correspondent-christiane-amanpour-to-speak-about-hunger-live-by-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/09\/cnns-prize-winning-correspondent-christiane-amanpour-to-speak-about-hunger-live-by-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s prize-winning correspondent Christiane Amanpour to speak about hunger live by satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I — September 14, 2004 — 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna Christiane Amanpour, CNN\u2019s chief international correspondent based in London, will speak, live via satellite, about her personal experiences reporting on famine, war, and hunger around the world. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe public is invited to attend Amanpour\u2019s talk, which will be followed by a live question-and-answer session. The free event, part of this fall\u2019s 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium \u201cFood & Human Rights, Hunger & Social Policy,\u201d will be held Monday, September 20 at 7 p.m. in Room 271, Chafee Social Science Center, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmanpour has reported from many of the world\u2019s most dangerous hotspots, including Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Rwanda. Recently, she reported on the desperate famine conditions in Sudan.<\/p>\n


\nShe was the only international correspondent who reported continuously from the Balkans, bringing the Bosnian tragedy into context and to the world\u2019s attention. She subsequently covered the Milosevic war crime trials in The Hague.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmanpour\u2019s reputation as a world-class correspondent has earned her numerous awards, including an Emmy, two George Foster Peabody awards, two George Polk Awards, Courage in Journalism Award, and the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcast Journalism. \t<\/p>\n


\nRecently she was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, an honor that recognizes significant contributions to journalism.<\/p>\n


\n\tBefore joining CNN, she worked at WJAR-TV in Providence, while attending 溏心vlog免费B站. She graduated from the University summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism in 1983.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmanpour began her CNN career in 1983 as an assistant on the network\u2019s international assignment desk in Atlanta. She has since worked in CNN\u2019s New York and Frankfurt bureaus. She is also a contributor to CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes, the first reporter ever to broker this kind of dual assignment.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe evening is sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences. Additional major sponsors for the colloquium include Edward W. Bouclin, The Providence Journal, Theta Chi Fraternity, 溏心vlog免费B站 \u2018s College of Business Administration, College of the Environment & Life Sciences, College of Human Science & Services, Division of University Advancement, Honors Program, Office of the Provost, and President\u2019s Office. Co-sponsors include 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, Multicultural Center; Office of Student Affairs; Partnership on Food, Hunger, and Nutrition; Women\u2019s Center and Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I — September 14, 2004 — 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna Christiane Amanpour, CNN\u2019s chief international correspondent based in London, will speak, live via satellite, about her personal experiences reporting on famine, war, and hunger around the world. The public is invited to attend Amanpour\u2019s talk, which will be followed by a live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}