Amanpour to Become Centerpiece of Cnn International Evening Lineup Launching This Spring in Asia

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Christiane Amanpour returns to CNN Worldwide this spring and will broadcast her signature program,Amanpourthroughout the world in more than 200 countries

 Liza McGuirk named Executive Producer ofAmanpour

Christiane Amanpour returns to CNN Worldwide this spring and will broadcast her signature program,Amanpourthroughout the world in more than 200 countries, it was announced today by Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing director of CNN International.

Amanpourwill air in Asia evening primetime on CNN International and deliver the definitive international news and interview program that CNN's worldwide audience has come to expect of the preeminent global journalist. 

Liza McGuirk, an award-winning producer who has more than two decades of experience in television journalism both producing and reporting, will be the executive producer ofAmanpour. McGuirk will be based in New York along with Amanpour.

In the unique relationship announced in December, Amanpour's primary role is as global affairs anchor for ABC News blazing a trail in international reporting for American viewers, in addition to her new program on CNN International reaching a vast global audience.  She will continue her courageous reporting in war-torn countries for all ABC News programs, platforms and online, including her unmatched ability to land major and rare exclusive interviews with world leaders - including last year's only interviews with Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak. As global affairs anchor for ABC News, her ongoing assignments range from the uprisings in the Middle East to Iran's nuclear program to the Eurozone crisis.  Amanpour will also report on new conflicts, natural disasters and humanitarian crises, anchor four primetime specials on ABC and continueAround the World with Christiane Amanpour, her recently launched video series for ABCNews.com and Yahoo News.

"We are delighted to seeAmanpourreturn to the heart of CNN International's lineup," said Maddox. "Christiane has proven herself time and time again to be the leading international journalist in television news and with Liza's commitment to producing compelling television,Amanpourwill showcase the very best CNN has to offer."

"I'm thrilled that Christiane's powerful, utterly original journalistic voice will once again be heard around the world, and I look forward to helping her shape an important program at a time of great global change," said McGuirk.

With the launch ofAmanpour, CNN International is once again offering Asia's primetime audience a destination program featuring one of the world's most distinguished journalists. Known for her tough questions and extraordinary depth of knowledge, Amanpour will focus on international stories shaping the news agenda, delivering sharp analysis to an audience of more than 280 million households in more than 200 countries around the world with CNN International.

Amanpour and McGuirk have previously collaborated on a number of projects for CNN, including the award-winning 1999 documentary about Iran, Revolutionary Journey. In June 2008, McGuirk launched the Sunday morning news and discussion programFareed Zakaria: GPS, which was nominated for an Emmy after just months of being on air.  Most recently she served as the executive producer of CNN'sParker Spitzer. She also worked at CBS News for eight years, including four years producing and writing segments for the late60 Minutescorrespondent Ed Bradley. McGuirk reports to Mike McCarthy, senior vice president of programming for CNN International.

Amanpour spent more than 25 years reporting from around the globe for CNN. Most recently, she was CNN's Chief International Correspondent and anchoredAmanpouron CNN International from September 2009 to April 2010. In the summer of 2010, Amanpour joined ABC News and became host of ABC News'This Week,where she was the only Sunday morning anchor nominated for an Emmy award. Her body of work has earned nine News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow award, an inaugural Television Academy Honor and nine honorary degrees.

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