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  • ABC News veteran Peter Jennings dies at 67

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC News’ veteran anchor, Peter Jennings, has died at age 67. He had announced in April that he was suffering from lung cancer.

    The Canadian-born broadcaster died at his home in New York on Sunday. He had worked with the ABC network since 1964, after coming south from Canada where he had started his journalistic career. Media reports indicate he anchored World News for over two decades. Jennings established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world in 1968, serving as ABC News’ bureau chief for Beirut for seven years. He had a major role in the network’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in Munich, when Israeli athletes were taken hostage.

    After the events of 9/11 four years ago, Jennings anchored ABC broadcasts for more than 60 hours. The coverage garnered awards and critical acclaim. TV Guide called him “the centre of gravity.” Like his competitors, Dan Rather at NBC and Tom Brokaw at CBS, he became an itinerant figure, jumping around the globe and the country from the scene of one major story to the next. On screen, he exuded calm and authority which was enriched by a certain elegance and the driest sense of humor on occasion.

  • CNBC Asia Pacific promotes heads of operations and news programming

    CNBC Asia Pacific promotes heads of operations and news programming

    MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific has promoted Peter Juno to senior vice president and director of operations and Cynthia Owens to senior vice president, news programming. Both Juno and Owens previously held the vice president title in their respective roles.

    Juno will be in charge of CNBC Asia Pacific’s operations and engineering requirements and will be based in the business news network’s headquarters in Singapore. He will also be responsible for the overall strategic planning, development and implementation with regard to operational new technologies. Juno will also coordinate the operational requirements between CNBC Asia Pacific and CNBC networks in the US and Europe. His responsibilities include ensuring operational and budget efficiency within the network’s news bureaus in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

    Juno joined Asia Business News in 1993 and has been with the station through the merger with CNBC. He was part of the negotiation team in talks between Dow Jones and NBC, the parent companies of ABN and CNBC, prior to the merger.

    Prior to his work at Asia Business News and CNBC Asia Pacific, he was with TVNZ/Avalon Studios in New Zealand in various production and technical roles.

    Owens, on the other hand, leads CNBC Asia Pacific’s news programming division and is responsible for CNBC Asia Pacific’s news production and presentation, programming format development and newsgathering techniques. She will be based in CNBC’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

    She has been credited for launching the business news unit for ABC News in New York, organising and coordinating business reporting for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and for her contribution to other ABC News programmes.

    Owens has also worked for Dow Jones & Company as executive producer for Wall Street Journal Television in New York and as deputy news director for WBIS. A print reporter for several years, she has also worked with The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and Bangkok, and at Knight Ridder with their Financial News arm in Tokyo as congressional correspondent in Washington DC and as a business reporter in Chicago.

    Before rejoining CNBC Asia Pacific, she was vice president of professional channels for iVillage, the largest women’s web portal based in New York.

    CNBC Asia Pacific president and CEO Alexander Brown said, “Both Peter and Cynthia have played very significant roles in the growth of the network. Given that we produce 10 hours of live programming every business day, we take pride in the quality, accuracy and presentation of our news output. The number of awards and accolades that our anchors and programmes have received over the years is testament to the hard work and commitment of our staff. These two individuals have led the charge in their respective areas, and their promotions are a reflection of their efforts.”

  • CNN to be feted at SAJA awards

    CNN to be feted at SAJA awards

    NEW YORK: CNN’s Indra Sibal and Ash-har Quraishi will be honoured for their contribution to the field of journalism this weekend in New York. Both are the winners of 2003 SAJA Journalism Awards contest to be given away by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) at its ninth annual dinner on 20 June at Columbia University.
     
     
    In the outstanding editorial/op-ed on South Asia category CNN correspondent Indra Sibal is being cited for the video documentary Arranged Marriage. This takes a look at the tradition of organising a wedding in India.

    The broadcaster’s Ash-har Quraishi is gong to be recognised for the series Pakistan Decides. The category is Special Project on South Asia or South Asians in North America.

     
    The stories examine our neighbours struggle to move forward towards creating a democratic environment.

    These annual awards recognise excellence in reporting about South Asia, as well as outstanding reporting by South Asian journalists and students in the US and Canada. The awards ceremony is part of the SAJA international convention, which takes place from 20-22 June and is expected to draw 600 journalists and guests from the US, Canada, Europe and South Asia.

    The awards will be presented at Columbia University by The Oregonian executive editor Peter Bhatia and CNN International’s executive VP and GM Rena Golden. In addition, Bhatia and Golden, the senior-most South Asians in US newspapers and television, respectively, will each receive a SAJA Journalism Leader Award in recognition of their contributions to the field of journalism.

    The convention’s opening speaker is ABC News anchor Peter Jennings. He will talk about his experiences covering South Asia and other international stories for more than 30 years. SAJA will also pay tribute to the memory of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, who, as Mumbai bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, was a regular participant in SAJA’s cyber activities.

    This year’s contest received more than 300 entries from more than 100 media outlets for work executed last year. In the photo about South Asia or South Asians in North America section Time magazine’s John Stanmeyer will be cited for Nuclear Neighbours. The series of photos captured the divide between Pakistan and India.