Award-winning journalist Christiane Amanpour will focus on her life and profession throughout an upcoming lecture on the Society of the Four Arts.
Scheduled for 3 p.m., March 31 on the Four Art’s Gubelmann Auditorium, “Making News: My Life in the Newsroom and in the Trenches,” will see NCS’s chief worldwide anchor focus on her storied profession since becoming a member of the community as an assistant again in 1983.
During the Nineties as NCS’s chief worldwide correspondent, Amanpour rose to worldwide prominence for her protection of the Bosnian War. In 2006, she was acknowledged as an honorary citizen of Sarajevo for her studies on the brutal preventing and human rights violations that occurred in the course of the battle.
Following the terrorists assaults on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, Amanpour was the primary worldwide correspondent to interview the leaders of the U.Okay., France, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011, Amanpour could be the primary U.S.-based reporter to interview former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi; the interview was additionally the chief’s final earlier than his dying to a mob later that yr.
Since 2009, Amanpour has hosted NCS’s flagship worldwide information present “Amanpour,” save for a three-year stint with ABC News.
The lecture comes months after Amanpour announced in October that she’s battling ovarian cancer again. That revelation got here 4 years after she underwent chemotherapy remedy to battle the illness.
General admission tickets are $50 for the lecture at 102 Four Arts Plaza and can be found by calling 561-655-7226.
Diego Diaz Lasa is a journalist on the Palm Beach Daily News, a part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can attain him at [email protected].