PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, present a new one-hour late-night public affairs series Amanpour and Company, which launched on Monday, September 10 on PBS. The new series features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City. The new series, an expansion of CNN’s flagship program Amanpour, will continue to air on CNN International weekdays.
“I’m delighted to expand my role at PBS from interim to permanent along with this remarkable diversity of voices and views. Never has the time for exploring our world and America’s place in it been so urgent. And I am also thrilled to be a female filling this role at this time!” said Christiane Amanpour.
“For decades, a national audience has turned to PBS for smart conversations about the ideas of our time from diverse voices. That trusted tradition continues with Amanpour and Company,” said Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.
“Building on the enthusiastic response to Amanpour on PBS, Amanpour and Company will be a valuable addition to PBS’ nightly public affairs lineup and give viewers a better understanding of our world,” said PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has earned every major television journalism award, including 11 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards and the Courage in Journalism Award. She has received nine honorary degrees, has been named CBE (a British honor awarded by the Queen of England, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and was this year inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. She is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom of the Press and the Safety of Journalists.
Author and journalist Walter Isaacson is a professor of history at Tulane University and the former President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time magazine.
Emmy-winning veteran journalist Michel Martin is a host on NPR’s Morning Edition, and has previously been a host on NPR’s All Things Considered and Tell Me More. Her previous credits include ABC News, Nightline, covering politics for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, serving as a regular panelist on Washington Week and This Week with George Stephanopoulos and a contributor to NOW with Bill Moyers. Martin has received numerous honors, including the Joan Barone Award for Excellence in Washington-based National Affairs/Public Policy Broadcasting from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association.
Hari Sreenivasan is a host for Amanpour and Company, which airs domestically on PBS and internationally on CNN International. He is also the host and executive producer for Take On Fake, a YouTube channel focused on misinformation and disinformation. Sreenivasan has worked for several PBS programs including SciTech Now and the PBS Newshour, where he anchored PBS NewsHour Weekend for eight years. He continues to contribute to the coverage of higher education. Prior to his time at PBS he worked at the CBS and ABC News networks as well as local television stations in San Francisco, Raleigh, NC and Yakima, Washington. He also reported on technology for CNET. Sreenivasan has been honored with national and local Emmy Awards as well as a Webby award.
Amanpour and Company is a collaboration between WLIW LLC for WNET, and CNN. For WNET: Neal Shapiro, Diane Masciale and Stephen Segaller are executives in charge.
Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by The Anderson Family Endowment, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Mark J. Blechner, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, Charles Rosenblum, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, the JPB Foundation, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism and Josh Weston.