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The
28th Annual Walter Cronkite Award for
Excellence in
Journalism and Mass Communication
Christiane Amanpour
Thursday,
November 17, 2011
Sheraton
Phoenix Downtown Hotel
Article
by Bette Sharpe Glendale Daily Planet Photos by Ed
Sharpe and Bette Sharpe
Ed
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet
Christiane Amanpour reflecting on the
video the Cronkite students had
produced about her career that
was shown at the presentation.
Christiane
Amanpour is an award-winning foreign correspondent and anchor
of ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour".
She
has been with ABC News for the last year.
Prior to that when was an international correspondent
for CNN for more the 27 years.
She reported from some of most dangerous regions of the
world including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan Somalia,
Palestinian territories, Rwanda and the Balkans.
She
has interviewed dozens of world leaders, including the
presidents of Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria,
Rwanda, Uganda, South African, Nigeria and France, as well as
Palestinian leaders, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair. Recently,
she conducted exclusive interviews with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak
and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
Amanpour
has been recognized with broadcast journalism top honors which
include nine Emmy Awards, four George Foster Peabody Awards,
three duPont-Columbia Awards, two George Polk Awards, the
Courage in Journalism Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Born
in London and raised for part of her childhood in Iran,
Amanpour graduated from the University of Rhode Island summa
cum laude in 1983.
The
2010 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in
Journalism was Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams in 2009 and Jim
Lehrer and Robert MacNeil received the award in 2008.
Amanpour
considers journalism is a public service, and with that trust
comes with positive forces and negative ones.
The job of a journalist is to ask rigorous questions to
people in power. and and
to "...speak truth to power".
Journalists represent the public. And they should not
be afraid to fail. In
fact, failing often leads to learning opportunities.
These opportunities would not be possible without the
failure. Embrace
your mistakes, they can be learning tools.
Other
words of advice for the many professional and student
journalist in the audience was to
not confuse descent for disloyalty and unpatriotic.
A healthy democracy depends on information that often
comes from asking tough questions.
There
is new media and new platforms used to deliver the news, but
it is still the people how are the gate keepers.
Amanpour tries to show a little light to the subjects
and topics she covers on her weekly program.
"You
need to know the story of the other"
It is too easy to keep reinforcing one's own beliefs
and not learning about what lies outside that comfort zone.
Knowing only one side, is arming yourself only half
way.
She
reminds the journalists attending today's luncheon that they
are all part of the global community.
Listen
to the video of her acceptance address, it is inspiring.
( If you get this article in email please
use this link to watch the VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtuRF22Mj4Y
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Ed
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet
Watching
the on stage monitor during the video on Christiane Amanpour
the Cronkite students produced.
Left to Right - Fred
DuVal, Chairman, Arizona Board of Regents - Dr. Michael M.
Crow, President, Arizona State University - Honoree Christiane
Amanpour, ABC TV, Winner of the Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence
in Journalism and Mass Communication - Christopher
Callahan, Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and University Vice Provost, Downtown
Phoenix campus - John Misner, Chief Operating Officer,
Republic Media and President, Cronkite Endowment Board.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7105.
Christiane
Amanpour, 2011 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for
Excellence in
Journalism and Mass Communication, and presenter Dr. Michael
M. Crow,
President, Arizona State University.
Over twelve hundred were on hand to see Amanpour
receive the award
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet. no. 7101.
The
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and Mass
Communication.
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Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
Introductory
Remarks
Fred DuVal
Chairman, Arizona Board of Regents
Lunch
Welcome
Christopher Callahan
Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
and University Vice Provost, Downtown Phoenix
campus
Remarks
Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
Introduction
of Christiane Amanpour
John Misner
Chief Operating Officer, Republic Media
and President, Cronkite Endowment Board
Presentation
to Christiane Amanpour
of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in
Journalism and Mass Communication
Remarks by
Honoree Christiane Amanpour
From the
event program. |
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