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Christiane Amanpour

April 23, 2023

Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour[1] CBE (/ˌkrɪstʃiˈɑːn ˌɑːmənˈpʊər/ (listen); Persian: کریستیان امان‌پور, romanized: Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958)[2] is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS.[3]

Christiane Amanpour

CBE
Amanpour at the 2008 Peabody Awards
Born
Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour

(1958-01-12) 12 January 1958 (age 65)
Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Rhode Island (BA)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • television host
EmployerCNN
Notable credit(s)Amanpour (CNN International) Anchor (2009–2010, 2012–present)
Amanpour & Company (PBS) Anchor (2018–present)
This Week (ABC) Anchor (2010–2011)
60 Minutes (CBS) Reporter (1996–2005)
Spouse
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(m. 1998; div. 2018)​
Children1

Early life and education

Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour (née Hill).[1][4] Her father was Iranian, from Tehran. Amanpour was raised in Tehran until the age of 11.[5][6] Her father was Shi'ite Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic.[1]

After completing the larger part of her primary school education in Iran, she was sent to a boarding school in England by her parents when she was 11. She attended Holy Cross Convent, an all-girls school in Chalfont Saint Peter, Buckinghamshire, and then, at the age of 16, she attended New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, Essex. Christiane and her family returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began. She has stressed the fact that they were not forced to leave the country, instead, they were returning to England due to the Iran–Iraq War. The family ultimately remained in England, finding it difficult to return to Iran.[7]

After leaving New Hall, Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During her time there, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer.[8] In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa[9] with a B.A. degree in journalism.[10]

Career

1983–2010: CNN

In 1983, she was hired by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, as an entry-level desk assistant. During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran–Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.[11] In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time. Through this position, she was able to move up in the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNN's New York bureau.

Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking CNN to a new level of news coverage.[buzzword] Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones. While in Bosnia, she interviewed Serb general Ratko Mladic, who would later be convicted of genocide. Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied, "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."[12] Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.[13]

From 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent as well as the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010. Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina. She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe, Africa and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others.[citation needed] After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Other interviewees have included Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama, Robert Mugabe and Moammar Gadhafi.[14]

She has also conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel and actors Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.[15]

From 1996 to 2005, she was contracted by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in-depth international news reports a year as a special contributor. These reports garnered her a Peabody Award in 1998[16] (she had earlier been awarded one in 1993[17]). Hewitt's successor Jeff Fager was not a fan of her work and terminated her contract.

She has had many memorable moments in her television career, one of them in a live telephone interview with Yasser Arafat during the siege on his compound in March 2002, in which Arafat gave tough responses: "Are you asking me why am I under complete siege? You're a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession."[18] and "You have to be accurately [sic] when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet!",[18] and finished by hanging up on her.

Bosnian War reporting

On 9 October 1994, Stephen Kinzer of The New York Times criticised Amanpour's coverage, in general, of the Bosnian War. Kinzer quoted a colleague's description of Amanpour as she reported on a terrorist bombing in the Markale marketplace of the Bosnian city of Sarajevo:

[Christiane Amanpour] was sitting in Belgrade when that marketplace massacre happened, and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it. There was no way she could have known that. She was assuming an omniscience which no journalist has.[19]

Amanpour has responded to the criticism leveled on her reporting from the war in the former Yugoslavia for "lack of neutrality", stating:

Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realized that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, "Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife." No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.[20]

In 2019, retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Saeed Qassemi spoke of his and his comrades' participation as combatants in the Bosnian War, with him having been disguised as staff of the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Shortly after, in April 2019, Qassemi claimed that Amanpour had uncovered their deception.[21]

2010–2012: ABC News

On 18 March 2010, Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week. She said, "I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor This Week in the superb tradition started by David Brinkley is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love, and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."[22] She hosted her first broadcast on 1 August 2010.

During her first two months as host, the ratings for This Week reached their lowest point since 2003.[23] On 28 February 2011, she interviewed Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi Gaddafi.[24][25]

On 13 December 2011, ABC announced Amanpour would be leaving her post as anchor of ABC News' This Week on 8 January 2012, and returning to CNN International, where she had previously worked for 27 years, and maintaining a reporting role at ABC News.[26]

2012–present: Return to CNN

 
With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna, Austria, on 14 July 2015

A day later on 14 December 2011, in statements by ABC and CNN, it was announced that, in a "unique arrangement", Amanpour would begin hosting a program on CNN International in 2012, while continuing at ABC News as a global affairs anchor.[27]

It was later revealed that in the spring of 2012, CNN International would refresh its line-up, putting the interview show Amanpour back on air.[28] On-air promotions said she would return to CNN International on 16 April. Her 30-minute New York-recorded show – to be screened twice an evening – would mean that the US parent network's Piers Morgan Tonight interview show would be "bumped" out of its 9:00 p.m. (Central European Time) slot to midnight (CET).[29]

On 9 September 2013, the show and staff were moved to the CNN International office and the show is currently being produced and broadcast from London.

On 7 January 2015, Amanpour made headlines during a "Breaking News" segment on CNN by referring to the Islamic extremists who murdered the 12 journalists at Charlie Hebdo as "activists": "On this day, these activists found their targets, and their targets were journalists. This was a clear attack on the freedom of expression, on the press, and on satire".[30]

 
Amanpour interviewing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in 2019

On 12 November 2020, Amanpour compared the Trump administration to the Nazis and Kristallnacht, saying "It was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth. After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth." The Israeli government, along with some Jewish groups, called for Amanpour to apologize for this comparison. Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich urged an "immediate and public apology" for "belittling of the immense tragedy of the Holocaust."[31][32][33]

In September 2022, Amanpour axed a scheduled interview with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi in New York City during the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, following a last-minute demand that she wear a headscarf while filming.[34] Amanpour responded that she could not agree to the "unprecedented and unexpected condition" and later reflected on the situation, saying that "Here in New York, or anywhere else outside of Iran, I have never been asked by any Iranian president ― and I have interviewed every single one of them since 1995 ― either inside or outside of Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf".[35][36][37]

Stance on Syria

In late 2013, Amanpour raised the argument for intervention in Syria against the Assad government, which has been fighting against Syrian opposition forces. She has appeared on several news programmes in the UK in which she has criticized the Obama administration for its non-interventionist approach to Syria. Her advocacy of intervention was criticized in The Huffington Post by Michael S. Lofgren.[38]

PBS

In May 2018, it was announced that Amanpour would permanently replace Charlie Rose on PBS after he was fired due to allegations of sexual misconduct.[39] Her new program, Amanpour & Company, premiered on PBS on 10 September 2018.[40] From the time of Charlie Rose's departure from PBS until the new show premiered, Amanpour was aired on PBS stations, as Amanpour on PBS.

In 2020, Christiane Amanpour has been doing the PBS daily program, Amanpour & Company, from her home in England, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her program continues to be seen on television on PBS at many stations in various areas of the US, including at least 4 TV stations in the greater Los Angeles region of southern California.

Affiliations

Amanpour is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists,[41] the Center for Public Integrity,[42] the International Women's Media Foundation,[43] and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.[44] Since April 2015 she has served as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom of Expression and journalist safety.[45]

Personal life

From 1998 to 2018, Amanpour was married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to former President Barack Obama. Their son, Darius John Rubin, was born in 2000. Having lived in London since 2000, they moved to New York City in 2010, where they rented an apartment in Manhattan's Upper West Side.[46] In May 2013, Rubin announced that the family would return to London to work on several projects,[47] and in October of the same year, Amanpour stated that she and her husband would be relocating to London permanently: "Right now I'd have to say that London is my home... My family are in England, and my husband and I are loving reacquainting ourselves with all the friends we left behind".[48]

In July 2018, Amanpour and Rubin announced they were divorcing.[49]

Amanpour is a relative by marriage of General Nader Jahanbani, who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanpour's uncle, Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.[50]

In June 2021, Amanpour announced that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, had "major successful surgery to remove it", and would undergo several months of chemotherapy.[51]

Screen and media appearances

Amanpour appeared in Gilmore Girls as herself in the show's series finale, "Bon Voyage". Throughout the series, Amanpour was an inspiration to one of the main characters, aspiring journalist Rory Gilmore. In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper's Bazaar magazine article entitled "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover".[52]

Amanpour played herself in newscasts in the films Iron Man 2 and Pink Panther 2. In Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, she voiced Enheduanna in the episode "The Immortals".

In 2014, Amanpour narrated "Women in War", an episode of season 2 of Makers: Women Who Make America.[53]

In 2016 Amanpour was a castaway on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs. As her luxury item she chose a guitar previously owned by Bruce Springsteen.[54]

Honorary degrees and recognition

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christiane, amanpour, christiane, maria, heideh, amanpour, ɑː, ɑː, ʊər, listen, persian, کریستیان, امان, پور, romanized, kristiane, amānpur, born, january, 1958, british, iranian, journalist, television, host, amanpour, chief, international, anchor, host, inte. Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour 1 CBE ˌ k r ɪ s tʃ i ˈ ɑː n ˌ ɑː m e n ˈ p ʊer listen Persian کریستیان امان پور romanized Kristiane Amanpur born 12 January 1958 2 is a British Iranian journalist and television host Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International s nightly interview program Amanpour She is also the host of Amanpour amp Company on PBS 3 Christiane AmanpourCBEAmanpour at the 2008 Peabody AwardsBornChristiane Maria Heideh Amanpour 1958 01 12 12 January 1958 age 65 Ealing Middlesex England United KingdomAlma materUniversity of Rhode Island BA OccupationsJournalist television hostEmployerCNNNotable credit s Amanpour CNN International Anchor 2009 2010 2012 present Amanpour amp Company PBS Anchor 2018 present This Week ABC Anchor 2010 2011 60 Minutes CBS Reporter 1996 2005 SpouseJames Rubin m 1998 div 2018 wbr Children1 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 1983 2010 CNN 2 1 1 Bosnian War reporting 2 2 2010 2012 ABC News 2 3 2012 present Return to CNN 2 3 1 Stance on Syria 2 3 2 PBS 3 Affiliations 4 Personal life 5 Screen and media appearances 6 Honorary degrees and recognition 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditAmanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour nee Hill 1 4 Her father was Iranian from Tehran Amanpour was raised in Tehran until the age of 11 5 6 Her father was Shi ite Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic 1 After completing the larger part of her primary school education in Iran she was sent to a boarding school in England by her parents when she was 11 She attended Holy Cross Convent an all girls school in Chalfont Saint Peter Buckinghamshire and then at the age of 16 she attended New Hall School a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford Essex Christiane and her family returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began She has stressed the fact that they were not forced to leave the country instead they were returning to England due to the Iran Iraq War The family ultimately remained in England finding it difficult to return to Iran 7 After leaving New Hall Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island During her time there she worked in the news department at WBRU FM in Providence Rhode Island She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer 8 In 1983 Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa 9 with a B A degree in journalism 10 Career Edit1983 2010 CNN Edit In 1983 she was hired by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta Georgia as an entry level desk assistant During her early years as a correspondent Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran Iraq War which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism 11 In 1989 she was assigned to work in Frankfurt am Main West Germany where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time Through this position she was able to move up in the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNN s New York bureau Following Iraq s occupation of Kuwait in 1990 Amanpour s reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking CNN to a new level of news coverage buzzword Thereafter she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones While in Bosnia she interviewed Serb general Ratko Mladic who would later be convicted of genocide Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims to which she replied There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about because when you are neutral you are an accomplice Objectivity doesn t mean treating all sides equally It means giving each side a hearing 12 Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas 13 From 1992 to 2010 Amanpour was CNN s chief international correspondent as well as the anchor of Amanpour a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009 2010 Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world s hotspots including Iraq Afghanistan Palestine Iran Israel Pakistan Somalia Rwanda and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe Africa and beyond including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as the presidents of Afghanistan Sudan and Syria among others citation needed After 9 11 she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair French President Jacques Chirac and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Other interviewees have included Hillary Clinton Nicolas Maduro Hassan Rouhani Emmanuel Macron Angela Merkel John Kerry the Dalai Lama Robert Mugabe and Moammar Gadhafi 14 She has also conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece Reza Pahlavi Ameera al Taweel and actors Angelina Jolie Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep 15 From 1996 to 2005 she was contracted by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in depth international news reports a year as a special contributor These reports garnered her a Peabody Award in 1998 16 she had earlier been awarded one in 1993 17 Hewitt s successor Jeff Fager was not a fan of her work and terminated her contract She has had many memorable moments in her television career one of them in a live telephone interview with Yasser Arafat during the siege on his compound in March 2002 in which Arafat gave tough responses Are you asking me why am I under complete siege You re a wonderful journalist You have to respect your profession 18 and You have to be accurately sic when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat Be quiet 18 and finished by hanging up on her Bosnian War reporting Edit On 9 October 1994 Stephen Kinzer of The New York Times criticised Amanpour s coverage in general of the Bosnian War Kinzer quoted a colleague s description of Amanpour as she reported on a terrorist bombing in the Markale marketplace of the Bosnian city of Sarajevo Christiane Amanpour was sitting in Belgrade when that marketplace massacre happened and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it There was no way she could have known that She was assuming an omniscience which no journalist has 19 Amanpour has responded to the criticism leveled on her reporting from the war in the former Yugoslavia for lack of neutrality stating Some people accused me of being pro Muslim in Bosnia but I realized that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing but in cases of genocide you can t just be neutral You can t just say Well this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife No there is no equality there and we had to tell the truth 20 In 2019 retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Saeed Qassemi spoke of his and his comrades participation as combatants in the Bosnian War with him having been disguised as staff of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Shortly after in April 2019 Qassemi claimed that Amanpour had uncovered their deception 21 2010 2012 ABC News Edit On 18 March 2010 Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News where she would anchor This Week She said I m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News Being asked to anchor This Week in the superb tradition started by David Brinkley is a tremendous and rare honor and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day I leave CNN with the utmost respect love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished 22 She hosted her first broadcast on 1 August 2010 During her first two months as host the ratings for This Week reached their lowest point since 2003 23 On 28 February 2011 she interviewed Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al Islam and Al Saadi Gaddafi 24 25 On 13 December 2011 ABC announced Amanpour would be leaving her post as anchor of ABC News This Week on 8 January 2012 and returning to CNN International where she had previously worked for 27 years and maintaining a reporting role at ABC News 26 2012 present Return to CNN Edit With U S Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna Austria on 14 July 2015 A day later on 14 December 2011 in statements by ABC and CNN it was announced that in a unique arrangement Amanpour would begin hosting a program on CNN International in 2012 while continuing at ABC News as a global affairs anchor 27 It was later revealed that in the spring of 2012 CNN International would refresh its line up putting the interview show Amanpour back on air 28 On air promotions said she would return to CNN International on 16 April Her 30 minute New York recorded show to be screened twice an evening would mean that the US parent network s Piers Morgan Tonight interview show would be bumped out of its 9 00 p m Central European Time slot to midnight CET 29 On 9 September 2013 the show and staff were moved to the CNN International office and the show is currently being produced and broadcast from London On 7 January 2015 Amanpour made headlines during a Breaking News segment on CNN by referring to the Islamic extremists who murdered the 12 journalists at Charlie Hebdo as activists On this day these activists found their targets and their targets were journalists This was a clear attack on the freedom of expression on the press and on satire 30 Amanpour interviewing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in 2019 On 12 November 2020 Amanpour compared the Trump administration to the Nazis and Kristallnacht saying It was the Nazis warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity and in that tower of burning books it led to an attack on fact knowledge history and truth After four years of a modern day assault on those same values by Donald Trump the Biden Harris team pledges a return to norms including the truth The Israeli government along with some Jewish groups called for Amanpour to apologize for this comparison Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich urged an immediate and public apology for belittling of the immense tragedy of the Holocaust 31 32 33 In September 2022 Amanpour axed a scheduled interview with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi in New York City during the seventy seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly following a last minute demand that she wear a headscarf while filming 34 Amanpour responded that she could not agree to the unprecedented and unexpected condition and later reflected on the situation saying that Here in New York or anywhere else outside of Iran I have never been asked by any Iranian president and I have interviewed every single one of them since 1995 either inside or outside of Iran never been asked to wear a head scarf 35 36 37 Stance on Syria Edit In late 2013 Amanpour raised the argument for intervention in Syria against the Assad government which has been fighting against Syrian opposition forces She has appeared on several news programmes in the UK in which she has criticized the Obama administration for its non interventionist approach to Syria Her advocacy of intervention was criticized in The Huffington Post by Michael S Lofgren 38 PBS Edit In May 2018 it was announced that Amanpour would permanently replace Charlie Rose on PBS after he was fired due to allegations of sexual misconduct 39 Her new program Amanpour amp Company premiered on PBS on 10 September 2018 40 From the time of Charlie Rose s departure from PBS until the new show premiered Amanpour was aired on PBS stations as Amanpour on PBS In 2020 Christiane Amanpour has been doing the PBS daily program Amanpour amp Company from her home in England due to the COVID 19 pandemic Her program continues to be seen on television on PBS at many stations in various areas of the US including at least 4 TV stations in the greater Los Angeles region of southern California Affiliations EditAmanpour is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations a member of the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists 41 the Center for Public Integrity 42 the International Women s Media Foundation 43 and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting 44 Since April 2015 she has served as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom of Expression and journalist safety 45 Personal life EditFrom 1998 to 2018 Amanpour was married to American James Rubin a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to former President Barack Obama Their son Darius John Rubin was born in 2000 Having lived in London since 2000 they moved to New York City in 2010 where they rented an apartment in Manhattan s Upper West Side 46 In May 2013 Rubin announced that the family would return to London to work on several projects 47 and in October of the same year Amanpour stated that she and her husband would be relocating to London permanently Right now I d have to say that London is my home My family are in England and my husband and I are loving reacquainting ourselves with all the friends we left behind 48 In July 2018 Amanpour and Rubin announced they were divorcing 49 Amanpour is a relative by marriage of General Nader Jahanbani who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979 and of his younger brother Khosrow who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi Amanpour s uncle Captain Nasrollah Amanpour was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader 50 In June 2021 Amanpour announced that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer had major successful surgery to remove it and would undergo several months of chemotherapy 51 Screen and media appearances EditAmanpour appeared in Gilmore Girls as herself in the show s series finale Bon Voyage Throughout the series Amanpour was an inspiration to one of the main characters aspiring journalist Rory Gilmore In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper s Bazaar magazine article entitled Christiane Amanpour Gets a High Fashion Makeover 52 Amanpour played herself in newscasts in the films Iron Man 2 and Pink Panther 2 In Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey she voiced Enheduanna in the episode The Immortals In 2014 Amanpour narrated Women in War an episode of season 2 of Makers Women Who Make America 53 In 2016 Amanpour was a castaway on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs As her luxury item she chose a guitar previously owned by Bruce Springsteen 54 Honorary degrees and recognition EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Christiane Amanpour news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message 1993 Livingston Award for Young Journalists 1993 George Polk Award for Television Reporting 1993 George Foster Peabody Personal Award 17 1994 Woman of the Year New York Chapter of Women in Cable 1994 Courage in Journalism Award International Women s Media Foundation 55 1995 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree University of Rhode Island 1996 George Polk Award for Television Reporting 1997 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree Emory University 1997 Nymphe d Honneur at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 1998 George Foster Peabody Personal Award for International Reporting 16 2000 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 56 2002 Edward R Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcast Journalism 2002 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at Harvard Kennedy School 57 2005 International Emmy International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2006 Honorary citizen city of Sarajevo 2006 Honorary doctorate degree from the University of Michigan for her contributions to journalism 2007 Paul White Award Radio Television Digital News Association 58 2007 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 Birthday Honours for services to journalism 59 2007 Persian Woman of the Year 2008 The Fourth Estate Award National Press Club 2008 Celebrating Women Award from The New York Women s Foundation 60 2010 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 61 2010 Honorary doctorate of humane letters degree Northwestern University 2010 Honorary doctorate from Georgia State University for her contributions to journalism 2010 Honorary member of the graduating class of 2010 of Harvard College 2011 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 62 2012 Honorary doctorate of humane letters Amherst College 2012 Honorary doctorate of humane letters University of Southern California 2015 TV Personality of the Year by Association for International Broadcasting 2019 Received the John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the University of Arizona School of Journalism 63 2022 Daily Kos marked her among trailblazing women of history born between 9 through 16 January along with three other Iranians Taraneh Alidoosti Actress Kimia Alizadeh athlete and Nadia Maftouni Philosopher 64 2022 Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication Arthur W Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication Feb 23 2022 This list or list section may be better with years Please help improve this list or discuss it on the talk page September 2020 Director on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists Fellow Society of Professional Journalists Fourteen Emmy news documentary awards Major role in two DuPont awards given to CNN Major role in a Golden CableACE award given to CNN Honorary board member of the Daniel Pearl Foundation Member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Harrington School of Communication and Media University of Rhode Island Sigma Delta Chi Award SDX for her reports from Goma Zaire Forbes named her one of The World s 100 Most Powerful Women POP Award by Cable Positive References Edit a b c Stated on Finding Your Roots 22 January 2019 UPI Almanac for Sunday Jan 12 2020 United Press International 12 January 2020 Archived from the original on 13 January 2020 Retrieved 27 June 2020 journalist Christiane Amanpour in 1958 age 62 Amanpour CNN CNN Retrieved 24 March 2023 Christiane Amanpour s Biography ABC News Retrieved 23 August 2010 Index entry FreeBMD ONS Retrieved 7 March 2020 ABC 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