KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 13, 2020 \u2013 Long before she was an award-winning chief international anchor at CNN, Christiane Amanpour was an eager journalism student at the 溏心vlog免费B站 interning at Rhode Island\u2019s WJAR-TV station with its veteran investigative reporter, Jim Taricani.<\/p>\n
Thirty-plus years later, Amanpour \u201983, H \u201995, will pay tribute to her former mentor on Thursday, July 16, at noon as she delivers the second installment of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights<\/a>, hosted by the Harrington School of Communication and Media.<\/p>\n This summer\u2019s free virtual series honors the memory of Taricani H \u201918, a Rhode Island journalism icon for his coverage of corruption and organized crime, his heroic stance in protecting a confidential source in 2004, and his advocacy of a federal shield law to protect journalists. The three-part series is a prelude to the annual Taricani Lecture, which begins next spring.<\/p>\n As an intern in the early 1980s, Amanpour worked with Taricani on numerous investigative stories, learning the time-tested tools of tracking down leads, verifying information, and getting to the truth, said Laurie White-Taricani, Jim\u2019s wife, who, along with the Taricani family, endowed the lecture series.<\/p>\n Amanpour and Taricani became friends. And when a job opened up at a new 24-hour cable news network, he told her to go for it, even though it was an entry-level position, taking in overnight satellite feeds and recording them on video.<\/p>\n \u201cChristiane knew early in her life that she wanted to be an international correspondent, but Jim encouraged her to pursue the opportunity even though it was behind the scenes,\u201d said White-Taricani. \u201cHe told her that it would be only a matter of time before a big story broke overseas and CNN would urgently need her multi-lingual, foreign affairs expertise.\u00a0A few weeks later, that’s exactly what happened. Christiane and Jim, of course, stayed in touch throughout the decades \u2013 sharing war stories \u2013 literally and figuratively \u2013 and learning from each other’s experiences.\u00a0I am so grateful for her friendship and willingness to headline session two of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights.”<\/p>\n From modest beginnings at CNN\u2019s Atlanta headquarters, Amanpour\u2019s career in journalism has spanned more than three decades. Later based in the network\u2019s London bureau, she rose through the reporting ranks, becoming CNN\u2019s leading international correspondent with a brand of fearless and uncompromising reporting. She covered the Gulf War and the war in Bosnia, along with reporting from such conflict hot spots as Afghanistan, North Korea, the Middle East, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Egypt, and Libya. Newsweek said her reporting from the Gulf and the Balkans helped make CNN must-see TV for world leaders.<\/p>\n In 2009, CNN launched \u201cAmanpour,\u201d a global affairs program aired in the U.S. on PBS. She has conducted exclusive interviews with many of the top world leaders and decision makers, including Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. She has also captured every major broadcast award, including the inaugural Television Academy Award, 11 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, and the Courage in Journalism Award.<\/p>\n Along with her role as anchor and reporter, Amanpour is an active rights campaigner, raising awareness of key global issues and journalists\u2019 rights. She is a board member of Committee to Protect Journalists, the Centre for Public Integrity and the International Women\u2019s Media Foundation. At her alma mater, Amanpour endowed the annual Amanpour Lecture, which has brought leading journalists to campus since 2007, and serves on the Harrington School advisory board.<\/p>\n Amanpour\u2019s talk, \u201cTruthful Not Neutral in a Time of Dissent: A Conversation with Christiane Amanpour,\u201d will be held Thursday, July 16, at noon and will be livestreamed on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Harrington School of Communication and Media\u2019s social media platforms. Please, register<\/a> to receive a weblink to the free lecture.<\/p>\n The lecture will be moderated by Sree Sreenivasan, a journalist and the inaugural Marshall R. Loeb visiting professor at the Stony Brook School of Journalism.<\/p>\n The Taricani Lecture Series concludes in August with a panel discussion of local journalists. The series is hosted by the Harrington School, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Journalism Department.<\/p>\n Gifts to the Taricani Lecture Series position the 溏心vlog免费B站 as a destination for robust discussion regarding journalism and the First Amendment by providing the resources needed to bring distinguished local, national and international journalists to lend their expertise and perspective to this critically important topic. Please, help support<\/a> the Taricani Lecture Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 13, 2020 \u2013 Long before she was an award-winning chief international anchor at CNN, Christiane Amanpour was an eager journalism student at the 溏心vlog免费B站 interning at Rhode Island\u2019s WJAR-TV station with its veteran investigative reporter, Jim Taricani. 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