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  • CNN Intl announces changes in news gathering operations

    CNN Intl announces changes in news gathering operations

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN International has announced a number of appointments within its international newsgathering operations in Asia-Pacific and Europe, Midlle East and Africa.

    CNN International MD Chris Cramer says, “I am particularly delighted to have been able to make such a large number of strategically important changes from within the CNN family. This is a testament to the depth and expertise of the staff we have working at CNN”.

    CNN Asia-Pacific managing editor, Jill Dougherty, will now be based in Washington D.C. and will be the US affairs editor, reporting for CNN International. She brings with her a unique global perspective having served as CNN’s Bureau Chief in Moscow for many years and previously, was a CNN White House correspondent travelling widely with former U.S. presidents.

    Taking Dougherty’s place is CNN International’s executive producer in Asia-Pacific, Ellana Lee. As acting managing editor for CNN Asia-Pacific, Ellana will oversee both the newsgathering and programming output from CNN’s Hong Kong production base as well as work closely with advertising sales and distribution.

    Aneesh Raman has been appointed as CNN’s Middle East correspondent and will be based in Cairo. This new title reflects his role in reporting from across the Middle East. Previously based in Baghdad, Aneesh has reported from numerous places in the past few months including Iran, Syria and Lebanon.

    CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent, John Vause will now cover China. He is based in Bejing. He has been CNN’s Jerusalem’s correspondent since October 2003, reporting from the frontlines on Israel’s war with Hezbollah, the Israeli pullout from Gaza and extensively covered the war in Iraq, being the only international TV reporter to visit the destroyed safe house of Al Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

    Atika Shubert, currently CNN’s correspondent in Tokyo responsible for the global news network’s coverage of Japan, moves to Jerusalem and joins the team led by Bureau Chief, Kevin Flower and correspondent, Ben Wedeman. Atika has covered several major news stories in Japan, including the recent election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the birth of the new prince, the controversial deployment of Japan’s Self Defense Forces to Iraq, among other significant stories.

    Joining CNN is Frederik Pleitgen who takes up the position as CNN’s Berlin correspondent. Frederik comes to CNN from German network broadcaster ZDF where he was the political editor.

  • CNN to report on Asia’s pollution crisis

    CNN to report on Asia’s pollution crisis

    MUMBAI: CNN correspondents will report from across Asia on the most polluted cities in a half-hour focus on the continent’s environmental crises and the threats they pose to the rest of the world in Ill Wind: Asia’s Pollution Crisis. The special airs on 4 June at 4 30 pm and 11 30 pm.

    Anchored by Anjali Rao from Hong Kong, Stan Grant, Jill Dougherty, Ram Ramgopal, Atika Shubert and Kristie Lu Stout analyse both the causes and effects of pollution in reports from India, China, Hong Kong, Japan and the US.

    Ramgopal reports from New Delhi which, despite having won praise for converting its public transport fleet to less polluting natural gas, is now under assault from a two wheeled traffic boom.

    The journey continues towards the west coast of the United States where Kristie Lu Stout reveals how pollutants from Asia are beginning to be detected in the air and water.

    In a sign of how things may improve, Tokyo bureau chief Atika Shubert reports from Kawasaki, a city that was once a “pollution nightmare” that has transformed itself into an “eco-town”. The city’s environmental model aims to strike a rare balance between the needs of development and growth while greatly reducing pollution.