In the midst of a political and cultural climate that Christiane Amanpour calls “an unprecedented state of affairs” and “a moment of extreme existential crisis and threat,” the CNN host will begin Amanpour & Company, set to launch on PBS September 10, with journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez…

PBS today announced a new late-night public-affairs show hosted by cable news veteran Christiane Amanpour that will launch in July. Amanpour & Company, a collaboration with New York pubcaster WNET and CNN, with feature the newswoman leading in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on…

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is stepping in to fill some of Charlie Rose’s late-night time slot on PBS and WNET. Amanpour will be offered to PBS stations on an interim basis, from 11-11:30 PM. PBS and the flagship New York station are working on plans to fill the 11:30 PM half hour left open when the pubcaster severed…

South by Southwest has announced that CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour and former New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez will be added to its lineup of featured speakers. Also joining the confab are Forerunner Ventures founder Kirsten Green, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute Walter Isaacson…

Watch CNN’s Christiane Amanpour pretend she doesn’t understand why Jon Stewart derided her “town hall” interview with Hillary Clinton, back when Clinton was on “book tour.” See Stewart decline to discuss whether he will be at Comedy Central through the next presidential election…

UPDATE, with video: Jon Stewart apologized profusely to viewers for having told CNN this afternoon that he had not voted, after word of that comment to Christiane Amanpour became a “thing” in social media. He says he’d made it up. He did not say why. Talking to Amanpour hours earlier, about his new movie Rosewater…

Comedy Central late-night host Jon Stewart stopped by Christiane Amanpour’s CNN studio to plug his new movie Rosewater.  The full interview with Stewart and Maziar Bahari, the subject of the film, will air tomorrow on Amanpour at 2 PM on CNNI. But she also sprung on Stewart a couple of questions about how he saw…

The ax at CNN began to fall today and will continue tomorrow, when Time Warner execs will meet with Wall Street analysts and investors to make a case for the company’s growth prospects. All told, there will be about 300 layoffs — including 130 voluntary buyouts — equal to about 8% of the news channel’s workforce. "The…

CNN en Español's Amanpour, currently broadcast in Mexico and Latin America, will begin running in the U.S., starting Saturday at 7 PM ET, with replays on Sundays at 8:30 AM, 5:00 PM, and 11:30 PM, and Mondays at 4:30 AM — all ET. Today’s announcement: Amanpour is hosted by renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour…

The official word is that Christiane Amanpour wants to get back into reporting from the field — not that This Week’s ratings have slipped. She’ll become a roving Global Affairs anchor hosting six prime time specials a year, along with work on other ABC News shows. In addition, she’ll anchor a new show about global…

Egypt is rapidly becoming a very dangerous place for foreign journalists. On the heels of the attacks on Fox News’ Greg Palkot, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC News’ Christiane Amanpour, an NBC News crew has been carjacked by a group of angry Egyptian men and threatened with beheading. According to ABC News, its…

Veteran correspondents and former network-mates Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour both said today that they were attacked by mobs in Egypt where the unrest is escalating. Here is Cooper’s  video account of his violent encounter with pro-Hosni Mubarak supporters and video of Amanpour’s more peaceful confrontation…