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Profile: Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour is small with dark hair. She looks
Iike an ordinary person, but she is one of the world's
most famous journalists.
Chnstiane was born in England in 1958 and went to school
5 there and in Iran. She studied journalism in the US, and when
she graduated from college, she got a job as an assistant
with CNN ไarrived at CNN withasuitcase, my bicycle
and 100dolars"'she says. It wasa difficult introduction
to,oumalism, but Christiane worked hard, and she soon
10 became a foreign correspondent.
many different stories. Some of them are the biggest
stories of the twentieth century. She haร reported on wars
and natural disasters. and she has also interviewed world
20 Teaders and politicians. She has often been in danger, but
ใuckily she has never been injured. Christiane won the
Courage in Journalism Award in 1994 for her war reports,
but she is modest about it. "It's our iob to go to these
places and bring back stories, just as a window on the
25 world" she says.
Life as a foreign correspondent is busy and often
dangerous. They fly to different countries and report on
เnternational news there. Their reports appear on news
websites, in newspapers and on TV, and thousands--
15 sometinmes millions-of people see them.
Today Christiane anchors an international neWS show
called Amanpour. She interviewS people in aTV studio, so
she doesn't travel much, but she still tells people what is
happening in the world."I believe that good journalism,
30 good television, can make our world
abetter place" she says.
Chnstiane has been all over the world and reported on
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