Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour sat down with Pat Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, on Sept. 29, 2009, to discuss her interview show “Amanpour,” her experiences in international reporting, and the media’s relationship with the Muslim World.

On the topic of how journalists can attract an audience, Amanpour said, “It’s good reporting and there’s no substitute and no trick to it. It’s about good storytelling, it’s about being willing to break the stereotypes, break the clichés, break your own preconceived ideas when you go places and look at it really as it is rather than as you wish it would be, to be curious about what you’re seeing, to be willing to take a story even if it doesn’t fit your preconceived ideas and write about it and report it. It’s the kind of journalism that’s always been so, it’s just we’ve gotten out of the habit of doing it.”

Additional Interviews With Christiane Amanpour
Amanpour discussed the 2009 Iranian election crisis and her own upbringing in an Iranian family in a June 2009 interview with “60 Minutes” reporter Leslie Stahl for The Women on the Web.

Amanpour gave extensive interviews to PBS’ Charlie Rose in 1997 and 2000.

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