Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent based in London. Amanpour has reported on most crises from the world’s many news hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans.
Her assignments have ranged from exclusive interviews with world leaders to reporting on the human consequences of natural disasters or covering events from the heart of war zones. She has received wide acclaim and numerous awards for her work, particularly for her extensive coverage of conflicts in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.
Amanpour’s recent work has focused on the production of a series of highly acclaimed long-form programs that have aired across the CNN networks. In 2006, Amanpour presented two outstanding award-winning documentaries, Where Have All The Parents Gone? a powerful film examining the plight of the more than one million children orphaned to AIDS in Kenya and a two-hour exploration of the life of the world’s most wanted terrorist, In the Footsteps of Bin Laden. In 2007, she presented an in-depth examination of the growing Islamic unrest in the U.K., The War Within which is to be followed in the summer of 2007 with a six-hour series on the world’s three leading monotheistic religions and their defenders, God’s Warriors.
In addition, Amanpour remains at the center of the news agenda and her reporting continues to be a corner-stone of CNN’s coverage of major international news events. In the last few years, Amanpour has been involved in every major news story that CNN has covered. This has included conflict in the Middle East, the natural disasters of tsunami-hit Sri Lanka and the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, as well as growing global terrorism, including the London tube bombings of July 2005 and the Madrid railway bombings of 2004, riots in France and the first democratic elections in Iraq. She has also traveled to Sudan to cover the crisis in Darfur where her coverage included an exclusive interview with Sudanese President al-Bashir.
Throughout her career, Amanpour has succeeded in securing a number of high-profile and exclusive interviews with world leaders for CNN. In the Middle East these interviews read like a “Who’s Who?” of the region’s leaders. Just as Iran’s nuclear crisis was developing, Amanpour became the first and only journalist to interview Iran’s newly-elected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She was also granted a world exclusive with Syrian President Bashar el Assad in 2005 on the U.N. investigation into Syria’s involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. During a state visit to Washington in 2003, Amanpour interviewed Mahmoud Abbas in his capacity as the first Palestinian Prime Minister and she was also granted the first ever interview with Jordan’s new monarch, King Abdullah, in May 1999, having been the last journalist to interview the King’s father, the long-reigning King Hussein, only days before his death. Other interviews of note include PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he was the Israeli prime minister during the heightened Middle East peace negotiations in 2000 and with Iranian-reformist President Khatami in December 1997.
The line-up is equally impressive elsewhere. She interviewed British Prime Minister Tony Blair, with whom she secured the first interview after Sept. 11, 2001 – when she also exclusively interviewed French President Jacques Chirac and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. She was also granted an exclusive with Chirac on the eve of the 2003 conflict in Iraq after France had refused a U.N. vote and with French Prime Minister Domenique de Villepin in the aftermath of the 2005 riots in France. In November 1999, Amanpour marked the 10th anniversary of the fall of communism with an interview with former Russian premier, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Amanpour is widely acclaimed for her coverage of the war in the Balkans where she spent years on this dangerous assignment, bringing the Bosnian tragedy to the world’s attention. No international network correspondent reported as continuously from this ethnically torn region. Amanpour subsequently covered the Milosevic war crime trials in The Hague in 2001 and 2002 and returned to the region in 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
It was in 1989 and 1990 that Amanpour first began to earn her reputation as a world-class correspondent as she reported on the dramatic changes in central Europe. This was followed by reporting assignments to cover the Gulf War, from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to the U.S. bombing of Baghdad and the Kurdish refugee crisis on the Iran/Iraq border that persisted after the cease-fire. She also covered the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent war in Tbilisi. In December 1992, Amanpour briefly left the former Yugoslavia to report live from the shores of Mogadishu, Somalia, as U.S. troops launched “Operation: Restore Hope.”
Amanpour has received many prestigious awards in recognition of for her reporting on major world stories. For her reporting from the Balkans, Amanpour received a News and Documentary Emmy, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, a Courage in Journalism Award, a Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She was also named 1994 Woman of the Year by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and she helped the CNN news network win a duPont Award for its coverage of Bosnia and a Golden CableACE for its Gulf War coverage.
Amanpour’s 1991 Gulf War reporting also received the Breakthrough Award from Women, Men and Media. Her contribution to the 1985 four-week series, Iran: In the Name of God, helped CNN earn its first duPont award.
In total, Amanpour has won nine Emmy awards, including one for her documentary Struggle for Islam; the 2002 Edward R Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcast Journalism; the Sigma Delta Chi Award for her reports from Goma, Zaire; a George Polk Award for her work on the CNN International special ‘Battle for Afghanistan’ in 1997; and the Nymphe d’Honneur at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 1997, to name but a few.
Her recent documentary In the Footsteps of Bin Laden won the Sigma Delta Chi Award given by the Society of Professional Journalists while Where have all the Parents Gone? has been recognized with a POP Award (Cable Positive for HIV/AIDS coverage). Amanpour was also recently named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, an honor which recognizes significant contributions to journalism. She has also been bestowed with a number of honorary degrees from America’s prestigious universities.
Amanpour began her CNN career in 1983 as an assistant on the network’s international assignment desk in Atlanta. She has since worked in CNN’s London, New York, Paris and Frankfurt bureaus.
While at college, Amanpour worked at WJAR-TV, Providence, R.I., as an electronic graphics designer. From 1981 to 1982, she also gained work experience as a reporter, anchor and producer for WBRU-Radio, in Providence.
Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism.
Jen Christensen, an Emmy-nominated television producer, is a field producer for CNN Productions. In that role, Christensen has helped produce a variety of compelling long-form documentaries for CNN: Special Investigations Unit and for CNN Presents, the most honored documentary series in cable news. She is based at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters.
Previously, Christensen ran the investigative unit for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., and
started the investigative unit at WTVQ in Lexington, Ky., where she also worked as a line producer. While still in college, she started her career at WXIN in Indianapolis running the assignment desk.
Prior to her broadcast journalism career, Christensen worked in London on nuclear non-proliferation issues for NATO’s Atlantic Council and worked re-drawing voter redistricting maps at the Chicago Board of Elections. She is listed as a co-author for two books: Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1993) and Women Confronting Retirement – A Nontraditional Guide (Rutgers Press, 2003). Christensen holds a bachelor’s degree from Butler University in TV/radio and political science and also attended the London School of Economics where she studied foreign policy and economics.
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Jody Gottlieb is executive director of CNN Productions, the long-form programming division of CNN Worldwide and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Gottlieb is responsible for all production, operational, new business, international sales and management issues of the division, which produces long-form and documentary programming for prime-time newscasts and two series – CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations – as well as for syndication and home video release.
During her 12-year tenure with Turner Broadcasting, Gottlieb has been instrumental in numerous major initiatives: producing and managing TBS Superstation's award-winning natural history series Wild!Life Adventures; managing the production of two multi-part CNN series – the Peabody-winning Cold War series and the 10-hour Millennium; creating and producing three weekly magazine format shows under the banner CNN Newsstand; supervising the award- and ratings-winning People in the News; originating and maintaining multiple new business initiatives; and the daily management of a department of 40 people creating more than 100 hours of programming a year.
In a recent innovative turn, Gottlieb conceived a co-production and promotional opportunity for CNN. Gottlieb’s plan called for TLC’s Overhaulin’ to remake and feature the CNN Hummer “Warrior One” in an episode, auction it off and donate the proceeds to charity.
Gottlieb was instrumental in creating CNN's first-ever documentary series. The series launched in 1998, and is today available to two billion people in more 200 countries and territories worldwide. CNN Presents airs on both CNN and CNN International and tackles the most dramatic, current and complex issues of the time.
Gottlieb is also responsible for producing, directing and supervising programming for CNN Presents, the most award-winning documentary series in cable news. Her recent projects include the Oscar-nominated Autism is a World; America Remembers, the award-winning two-hour program about the events of 9/11; The Mystery of Jesus, CNN Presents’ highest-rated program of the year; and The Two Marys, which explores the truth behind what is known about the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. Gottlieb most recently directed and produced After Jesus – The First Christians. For her work, Gottlieb has won more than a dozen major broadcasting and journalism awards including the DuPont, Polk, Murrow, Emmy and the Peabody.
Before joining Turner Broadcasting in 1994, Gottlieb was an independent producer and production manager, specializing in high-end commercials and long-form projects. Gottlieb has also worked in advertising, fashion and feature films.
Gottlieb holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of Charleston and a post-graduate degree from The Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Cliff Hackel, an Emmy-award winning television producer/director/editor with more than 30 years of experience, is a producer and editor for CNN Productions. In that role, Hackel produces a variety of compelling long-form documentaries for CNN Presents, the most honored documentary series in cable news. He is based in CNN’s Washington, D.C., bureau.
For his documentaries, Hackel’s journalism has ranged from specials on U.S. healthcare to the impact of the global economy on the United States to the workings of Wall Street. Additionally, his work includes Duke Ellington's Washington and Rediscovering Dave Brubeck, two PBS documentaries about legendary jazz pianists. Hackel’s documentaries have won numerous other awards, including many CINE Golden Eagle Awards, five Emmy awards for work with ABC’s The Koppel Report, CBS’s The Kennedy Center Honors, CNN’s Impact and PBS’s Frontline and Watergate Plus 30. Most recently, he was producer, director and editor of CNN’s award-winning documentary In the Footsteps of bin Laden.
Hackel is a graduate of George Washington University.
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Jon Klein is president of CNN/U.S., responsible for management oversight of all programming, editorial tone and strategic direction of the network. He reports to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.
Named to this position in November 2004, Klein previously served as president and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom, a broadband video company he founded in 1999. Under his direction, The FeedRoom became one of the leading online broadcasters in the world, delivering more than 1 million video clips each day to customers including CBS, NBC, ESPN, Reuters, Tribune television stations and newspapers, USA Today, Business Week, General Motors, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, General Mills and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Before founding The FeedRoom, Klein was an executive vice president at CBS News, where he oversaw prime-time programming including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours and Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel. Klein also oversaw off-network production, guest booking, investigative reporting and strategic planning.
Klein began his television career in 1980 as a news producer at WLNE in Providence, R.I., and the following year moved to a similar position at WPIX-TV/Independent Network News in New York. In 1982, he joined CBS News as a writer and news editor on the overnight broadcast Nightwatch. He subsequently served as broadcast producer on CBS Morning News and then CBS Evening News Weekend Edition, where he won an Emmy Award for live coverage of the 1986 Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.
In 1988, Klein joined the fledgling prime-time magazine series 48 Hours as a field producer, eventually winning an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Hugo and a Peabody Award for an hour he produced on the anti-abortion movement. Klein served as senior producer for CBS’s 1990 late-night series America Tonight with Charles Kuralt and Lesley Stahl, as senior producer for the network’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and later for the documentary
Back to Baghdad, in which foreign correspondent Bob Simon returned to the Middle East following his imprisonment by the Iraqis during the war.
In 1993, Klein launched a unique prime-time documentary series, Before Your Eyes, two-hour movies-of-the-week that explored social issues such as child abuse, AIDS and juvenile delinquency through the eyes of real people living through dramatic moments in their lives with the cameras rolling. The series, for which Klein served as executive producer and
director, was acclaimed for pioneering new forms of storytelling and received numerous national awards.
In 1997, Klein conceived and executive produced the CBS documentary Inside the Jury Room, in which network television cameras were permitted for the first time to observe deliberations in a criminal trial. The documentary won a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton.
Klein also wrote the story for the TNT Original film Buffalo Soldiers, a 1997 historical drama starring Danny Glover.
Klein graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1980 with a degree in history.
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Michael Mocklar is a senior producer for CNN Productions, CNN’s documentary, long-form and instant special production unit.
Based in Atlanta, Mocklar joined CNN in 1994 as a video journalist at Headline News. He also worked as a writer and producer for the network. Mocklar then spent five years at CNN/Sports Illustrated as a show producer, field producer, package producer and writer, before joining CNN Productions in 2002 as a producer for People in the News.
Most recently, Mocklar served as executive producer of Rumsfeld: Man of War, an hour-long documentary about U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Mocklar was also the executive producer of the award-winning The Last Days of Pope John Paul II, a two-hour documentary that took viewers inside the walls of the Vatican to tell the untold stories of the final days of the pope’s life, his funeral and the conclave that followed.
Mocklar graduated from Syracuse University with a master’s degree in television, radio, and film. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Colgate University.
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Mark Nelson is vice president and senior executive producer for CNN Productions. A veteran broadcast producer with nearly 30 years experience, Nelson is responsible for the network’s two documentary series – the award-winning CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit – as well as other long-form programming and special event programs.
Nelson joined CNN in 2004 as the senior executive producer of Paula Zahn Now, a nightly news and information program with interviews, current events news reports from CNN correspondents based around the globe, and analysis from experts in their field.
Nelson comes to CNN from the National Geographic Channel, where as vice president and executive producer he built a staff of more than 40 producers, correspondents, writers, editors, and directors to launch and produce National Geographic Today, the network’s hour-long, signature documentary program. His unit also produced specials and other documentaries for the channel.
Before joining the National Geographic Channel in 2000, Nelson spent 11 years as the senior broadcast producer for ABC’s Nightline, a position where he produced numerous Emmy-winning broadcasts. At the same time, Nelson served as a senior producer for special events programming including broadcasts of political conventions in 1996 and 2000.
Nelson joined ABC News in 1982 as a producer and has served as chief of the network’s bureaus in Tel Aviv, Rome and the western United States. Nelson started his career in 1976 in Des Moines, Iowa, as senior producer and director of Iowa Public Television.
Nelson attended Drake University and studied political science.
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Julie O’Neill is an award-winning field producer for CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit.
Since joining CNN as a feeds coordinator in 2000, O’Neill has written and produced a number of projects before joining CNN Productions in 2005. Since then, she was a producer on CNN: Presents – Rumsfeld: Man of War and CNN Presents: The Last Days of Pope John Paul II, which won a Silver Chris Award at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival last year. In 2005, O’Neill was sent to Rome to field produce coverage of Pope John Paul II’s funeral and the subsequent naming of a new pope.
In 2005, she supervised production of The Seasoned Traveler series for American Public Television.
O’Neill graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
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Brian Rokus is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated producer for CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit.
Since joining CNN in 1999, Rokus has produced documentaries on subjects ranging from 9/11 to global warming with assignments taking him to the Arctic Circle, into the sewers of Warsaw, Poland, and to a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Rokus has also covered breaking news and served as CNN’s overnight producer stationed in the Pentagon during the Iraq war.
Rokus started at CNN as a production assistant with CNN&Time before becoming an associate producer for CNN Presents in 2001 and then a producer in 2007. He won the National Press Club’s Kozik Award for Environmental Reporting in 2006 for “Melting Point” and a first place National Headliner Award in 2003 for “America Remembers.” His work helped CNN earn an Emmy nomination in 2005 for “Warsaw Rising.”
Rokus graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in politics.
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Andy Segal is a senior producer for CNN Productions, the long-form programming division of CNN Worldwide that produces the network’s series CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit.
Segal has spent most of his 30-year career in broadcast journalism as a long-form producer. From 1980 to 1990, he worked with an award-winning investigative team at Chicago’s WBBM-TV, and, for the last 17 years, with CNN’s documentary unit.
His international reporting at CNN includes The UN at War & Peace, which documented the United Nation’s failed peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia; Shattered!, the story an American nun who was tortured in Guatemala; The Population Boom, an in-depth look at over-population in Asia; and Back to Baghdad, an investigation into the lingering cold war between the United States and Iraq after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Several of Segal’s domestic programs have focused on military issues: Urban Combat revealed the U.S. Army’s new training for modern warfare; Captured! offered an exclusive and unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the Green Berets’ method of surviving capture and torture; and Fit to Kill examined the psychology of killing in combat.
He has also produced in-depth programs on street gangs in Los Angeles for Homicide in Hollenbeck and the modern-day Bonnie-and-Clyde’s who pull their heists using stolen identities for How To Rob a Bank.
Segal’s investigative and long-form projects have been recognized with several national journalism awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the National Emmy, the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the National Headliner Award.
Segal graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
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Ken Shiffman is a senior producer for CNN Presents. In that role, Shiffman conceives, researches and produces documentaries for CNN’s award-winning documentary program. He is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta.
During his 18-year tenure at CNN, Shiffman has produced national and international documentaries, news magazine segments and day-of-air stories, collaborating with the network’s top anchors and correspondents. He has produced numerous investigative reports focusing on a broad array of subjects, including lead poisoning among urban children, widespread bankruptcy fraud in the United States, Al Qaeda’s stronghold in Southeast Asia, mistreatment of retired racing dogs, medical insurance billing scams, and flawed forensic sciences. He was senior producer for CNN Presents’ award-winning documentary In the Footsteps of Bin Laden.
Shiffman has served as producer of interviews with world leaders, such as Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. He has produced live shots and taped segments for continuing coverage of
major news stories, including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush/Gore Florida vote recount,
the Olympic Park bombing, the 2006 Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia, and the
O.J. Simpson trial.
Shiffman joined CNN in 1989 as a researcher for CNN Special Assignment. He became a producer for a variety of CNN programs, including CNN&Time in 1992 and then for CNN Presents in 2000. He has served as a senior producer since 2004.
A winner of more than 40 journalism awards, Shiffman’s work has earned three Emmy awards, four National Headliner first-place awards, and an Overseas Press Club of America citation. He was part of the CNN staff that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2006 for the network’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Shiffman graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and from the University of Missouri with a master’s degree in journalism.
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Kathy Slobogin is managing editor of CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit, the network’s two documentary series. Named to this position in October 2002, she is responsible for all aspects of the long-form series, from story selection through the final cut. She is based in Washington, D.C.
Previously, Slobogin served as the education and family-issues correspondent for CNN, senior correspondent for CNN&TIME, a weekly prime-time news magazine, and senior correspondent for Impact, a weekly prime-time investigative newsmagazine. Her reports have covered a wide range of topics from exposing conditions in maximum-security prisons to uncovering corruption in the U.S. Forest Service to investigating the professional code of silence surrounding medical malpractice. Slobogin joined the network’s special assignment unit as a producer in 1990; she was named a CNN correspondent in 1992.
In 1992 and 1996, Slobogin was a correspondent for CNN’s Democracy in America documentary series on presidential election issues. The series won the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award both years.
Slobogin is one of television's most accomplished producers and reporters of investigative news and documentaries. Slobogin came to CNN from CBS News, where she was a producer and writer for West 57th Street, starting in 1985. She was with ABC News from 1978-1985, first as field producer then associate producer and producer for the Close-Up documentary unit. Before joining ABC News, she wrote for The New York Times. She began her career as an assistant to the editor of The New York Review of Books in 1974.
Her many honors include Emmy awards in 1984, 1995, 2003 and 2006 and an Emmy nomination in 2004, a 1984 Peabody Award for the critically acclaimed three-hour Close-Up documentary To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children, and the 1982 Christopher Award for her work on another Close-Up series, FDR. Other awards include the 2000 Edward R. Murrow Award; Cable ACE awards in 1993, 1995 and 1996; CINE Golden Eagle awards in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 and 2004; the Headliners Award in 1990, 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2004; the 1994 Westinghouse Science Journalism Award; the 1980 Writer’s Guild Award; and a 1983 duPont-Columbia citation.
Slobogin earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale College, graduating summa cum laude, with honors in English and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Dave Timko, an Emmy-award winning television journalist with more than two decades of experience, is a senior editor and producer for CNN Productions. In those roles, Timko produces a variety of compelling long-form documentaries for CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit. He is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta.
Timko joined CNN in 1985 as a video journalist and has held various production and editing roles as he carved out a niche as documentary filmmaker, regularly shooting, producing and editing long-form programs for the network. He joined CNN Productions, the network division that handles long-form programming and specials, at its inception in 2001. Since then, he has worked on such documentaries as Grady’s Anatomy, Homicide in Hollenbeck, We Were Warned and Melting Point.
Among his awards are four Emmys, including one for Hurricane Katrina: Heroes of the Storm
in 2006.
Timko graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
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Andrew Tkach is a producer for CNN International, working on the network’s long-form documentaries.
Since joining CNN International in January 2006, Tkach has primarily focused on the production of two documentaries presented by CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour: Where Have All The Parents Gone?, which examined the plight of Kenya’s AIDS orphans, and The War Within, which investigated the tensions in the British Muslim communities in the aftermath of the 7/7 London terrorist attacks.
Before taking up his post at CNN, Tkach produced The World’s Most Dangerous Gang, investigating Mara Salvatrucha from August until December 2005 for National Geographic Explorer. From March 1997 and August 2005, Tkach worked on the production of various magazine stories for CBS News’ 60 Minutes including stories on Uganda’s child soldiers, Afghan women, war crimes in Kosovo and a profile of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yushchenko, who had been poisoned during his candidacy. Tkach worked with Amanpour on a number of productions when she used to present occasional editions of 60 Minutes.
Prior to working for 60 Minutes, Tkach produced several one-hour programs for ABC News’ Turning Point and Prime Time Live and for CBS News’ 48 hours in New York. Tkach has also worked as freelance writer and photographer, publishing Sunday features with pictures in United Press International and magazine articles in Daily News and Scholastic Update.
He was on the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from September 1996 to February 1997, working as journalism lecturer at the University of Indonesia.
Tkach has received a string of awards for his work. He has been presented with eight News/Documentary Emmys over the past 18 years, most recently for his investigative journalism segment Weapons of Mass Destruction in 2003 and for his feature story segment Garden of Eden in 2004. He has also won the Robert F. Kennedy International Television Award for Sleeping Sickness in Sudan in 2002. This story looked at how pharmaceutical companies were keeping a cure for sleeping sickness off the market because it wasn’t profitable enough to make medicines for poor people in Africa and subsequently led to a donation of a five-year supply, which saved hundreds of thousands of lives. His work was also recognized at various film festivals, including two Gold Plaques and a Silver Hugo awarded by the Chicago International Film Festival between 1985 and 1987, a Special Distinction Award by the Tokyo Video Festival in 1985 and a Distinguished Participation at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1986.
Tkach holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a masters of science in journalism from Columbia University. He is fluent in French, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian.
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