ABC | Awards ABC’s Christiane Amanpour to be presented Walter Cronkite Award By Chris Ariens on Jun. 20, 2011 - 5:28 PM ABC’s Christiane Amanpour is the 2011 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, Arizona State University announced today. Amanpour will accept the 28th annual award, given by ASU’s Walter Cro ...
ABC | Politics Election 2010: ABC News Will be Live All Night for Midterm Coverage By Alex Weprin on Oct. 28, 2010 - 10:56 AM ABC News will have live midterm election coverage all night next Tuesday, though some of it will take place online. ABC’s coverage will kick off with “ABC World News” at 6:30 OM ET, anchored by Diane Sawyer and G ...
TV Biz Does the ‘This is NPR’ book tell the whole story? By Chris Ariens on Oct. 25, 2010 - 4:59 PM From the “interesting timing” file, look what arrived in the TVNewser mailbox today: This Is NPR, the first ever visual reference book chronicling National Public Radio’s 40 year existence. The book tells the sto ...
ABC Tapper’s Last ‘This Week:’ Geithner, Christie, Snooki By Alex Weprin on Jul. 26, 2010 - 9:10 AM Sunday marked ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper’s last day as interim host of “This Week.” Next Sunday Christiane Amanpour takes over the role full-time. Tapper made the most of his last day, talking ...
CNN Jennifer Griffin, Jill Doughtery, Cokie Roberts to Appear on AC360 By Chris Ariens on Apr. 29, 2010 - 8:37 AM • NPR and ABC’s Cokie Roberts, CNN’s Jill Dougherty, Fox News Channel’s Jennifer Griffin and Reuters’ Deborah Charles will appear on CNN’s AC360 tomorrow night to talk about the letter they signe ...
TV Biz Jennifer Griffin, Jill Doughtery, Cokie Roberts Band Together By Chris Ariens on Apr. 23, 2010 - 8:50 AM Fox News Channel’s Jennifer Griffin, CNN’s Jill Dougherty, and ABC’s Cokie Roberts — cancer survivors all — are getting together to challenge their colleagues. FishbowlNY has the letter the three wrot ...
Fox News Cokie Roberts: Glenn Beck ‘Worse than a Clown… More like a Terrorist’ By Chris Ariens on Mar. 23, 2010 - 2:22 PM Former ABC “This Week” co-host, now panelist on the program, Cokie Roberts does not pull any punches in the syndicated column she pens with her husband Steve. She writes about a recent panel discussion that Steve was p ...
TV Biz More Newsers Tapped to Address Grads By Alissa Krinsky on Mar. 21, 2010 - 11:53 AM As commencement season nears, we’ve got the latest on which newsers will address members of the Class of 2010: • CNN’s, soon-to-be ABC’s, Christiane Amanpour: Northwestern University (IL), June 18 (also: 201 ...
ABC Christiane Amanpour on the ‘New Perspective’ She’ll Bring to Sunday By kevin on Mar. 18, 2010 - 9:45 PM As we reported earlier today, Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN after nearly 27 years with the network and heading to ABC News where she’ll succeed George Stephanopoulos as moderator of that network’s Sunday public af ...
CNN Candy Crowley: “I Am First, Last, and Always a Reporter. And I’m Not Giving That Up.” By Alissa Krinsky on Jan. 31, 2010 - 2:35 PM Talk about timing. Candy Crowley found out last Wednesday she’s the new anchor of CNN’s Sunday morning public affairs program State of the Union. She got word “right before the State of the Union,” Crowley ...