Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour Returns to CNN, George Stephanopoulous Heads Back to This Week

• Dec 13, 2011 06:49 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Christiane Amanpour is set to return to CNN, vacating her anchor chair at ABC's This Week.

CNN announced Tuesday that Amanpour... read more

ABC's This Week Goes Global with Christiane Amanpour

• Jul 30, 2010 01:11 PM ET
• by Stephen Battaglio

During more than two decades as a globe-trotting correspondent for CNN, Christiane Amanpour was often asked why she rarely smiles on camera. "Well, that's because you often see me covering genocide, civil war and things like that," she would answer. Don't expect her demeanor to change much when she takes the anchor chair at ABC's political roundtable program This Week on Sunday (August 1, 9am/8c)... read more

CNN's Christiane Amanpour Heading to ABC's This Week

• Mar 18, 2010 07:42 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Christiane Amanpour, who has served as the face of CNN's international coverage for more than two decades, is leaving the cable news network to host ABC News' This Week.

Amanpour is... read more

TV News Relies on Cell Phones, Twitter to Evade Iranian Censorship

• Jun 19, 2009 05:56 PM ET
• by Tim Molloy

TV Networks covering the Iranian protests are smuggling news out of the country with cell phones, amateur video, and social networks — the same tools used by protestors still packing the country's streets.

"If this happened 10 years ago you wouldn't have the video phones, or even five years ago you wouldn't have sites like Twitter, or YouTube wouldn't be as ubiquitous," Jim Sciutto, ABC News' senior foreign correspondent, told TVGuide.com. "That's frustrating for these kinds of governments because they would love to be able, and I think they're used to, being able to shut this kind of thing down." read more

Christiane Amanpour Reports on CNN's New Doc Series

• Aug 15, 2007 10:44 PM ET
• by Stephen Battaglio

CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has been reporting from overseas hot spots since 1989, so she knows firsthand about God's Warriors, the subject of her three-part documentary series airing Aug. 21 to 23 at 9 pm/ET. Over six hours, Amanpour dissects the recent history of the fundamentalist elements of three Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — and how they want to transform society to fit their beliefs. The Biz recently talked with Amanpour about her willingness to dig deep into serious issues and go against the tabloid tide that's been pulling at cable news.TVGuide.com: Cable news has changed a lot over the last 15 years, but you're still able to go out and do serious long-form pieces. Who drives that? Do you have to push to get them done? When we think of cable news, we're not thinking about this kind of material anymore.Christiane Amanpour: I agree that it has changed an awful lot since Ted Turner created it. I think there is some... read more