It's been a while since we've done this, but we've come across some photos of CNN'ers from past and present and thought you might like this look back. Enjoy!

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According to Howard Kurtz's article in yesterday's Washington Post, longtime CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield is leaving the network for a move to CNN.



Greenfield joined the network in January 1998.

TVNewser - Chris Cramer leaves CNN International today after 11 years. In an e-mail to his colleagues today, the managing editor wrote:

"It has been a rare privilege to work at the heart of an organization like CNN International that was so mature in brand recognition and yet relatively young in business terms. Since then we have grown the business in a remarkable way.

Even in the face of tough competition, CNN International continues to have a profound effect on the lives of tens of millions of people around the world and you should be very proud of the journalism you practice. I am honored to have been able to share these experiences with you and I will remember my time at CNN with great affection."

CNN International has launched "The Screening Room" website to coincide with the launch of the series tonight. You can check it out at http://www.cnn.com/thescreeningroom.

CNN just launched it's first CNN International podcast, Quest on Quest, a video podcast featuring a fan favorite, Richard Quest. It can be watched and subscribed to at http://www.cnn.com/podcast/. According to its description:

Richard Quest is in search of Magic so he ventures behind the curtain to get tips from the masters and then takes the stage himself to pull off a few tricks of his own.

Enjoy!

CNN Pressroom - In time for the opening tip-off of the 2007 NCAA Final Four, CNN Radio and Headline News sports anchor Will Selva offer a full-court look at this year’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship with the network’s latest long-form program, “Tickling the Twine.” This hour-long program was produced by CNN Radio supervising producer Richard Benson.

“Tickling the Twine” features interviews with basketball coaches, analysis from college basketball insiders and a look into the reasons for the popularity of “March Madness.” Selva and CNN Radio also examine some of the financial elements of the tournament and how it means millions for participating schools and even dollars for those filling out their own brackets.

This program’s slate of guests include Southern Illinois coach Chris Lowery; UNLV coach Lon Kruger; former Duke University great Christian Laettner; Mike DeCourcy, a basketball analyst for Sporting News; Joe Ferreira, an executive producer with CBSSportsline.Com; and Billy Packer, a CBS basketball analyst.

“Tickling the Twine” is now available to CNN Radio stations on the private affiliate Web site and as a podcast at www.CNN.com/podcasting/

Here are some excerpts from the program. Please credit CNN Radio in all uses.

Christian Laettner, whose Duke team in 1991 and 1992 was the last to win back-to-back championships, on the difficulty of repeating as champions and whether Florida is up to the challenge:

It's extremely hard, you have to be very well coached. I respect Billy Donovan; he has done a great job.

Billy Packer explaining why he was not surprised with the resulting Final Four:

I thought there were six to eight teams this year in college basketball that probably stood head and shoulders above the next 60 teams.

Laettner on whether he is secretly rooting against the Florida Gators to repeat as champions:

I'm rooting against them, but I would not be surprised if they pulled it off, because they are a great team and very well coached.



CNN Radio is a full-service network, providing its approximately 2,000 worldwide affiliates with the latest information in news, sports and business. Utilizing CNN’s 36 bureaus worldwide, CNN Radio offers an unmatched menu of actualities and reports through satellite feeds and an affiliate-accessible Web site. CNN Radio is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, with personnel, including radio-only correspondents, located at the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York. CNN Radio programming is distributed exclusively for radio broadcast in the United States by Westwood One. CNN Radio audio can also be heard via a link on the www.CNN.com Web site.

Available April 17th.

Multi-platform Programming Kicks off ‘King-Sized’ Anniversary Week of April 16-22

Award-winning broadcaster Larry King marks his 50th anniversary in broadcasting with a weeklong celebration on Larry King Live and on CNN across all of its platforms, including on air, online and on radio. King kicks off the anniversary week with Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Bill Clinton, Bill Maher and a two-hour special presentation, CNN Presents: Larry King – 50 Years of Pop Culture.

King’s career began in 1957 when he worked at a small radio station in Miami Beach, Fla., performing odd jobs. When an announcer suddenly quit, he was given his big break and offered a position as a disc jockey. Fifty years and 40,000 interviews later, King altered the face of broadcasting with his everyman touch. He has interviewed everyone from presidents and kings, celebrities and newsmakers and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. When King made the transition from his successful national radio talk show to cable, he helped pioneer the future of cable news programming and CNN.

As part of the weeklong anniversary celebration, King will host a few of his favorite guests during the week of April 16-22 on Larry King Live.

Monday, April 16 – Oprah Winfrey joins King for an in-depth discussion on longevity in the media and the call to give back, 9-10p.m. (ET);

Tuesday, April 17 – Katie Couric turns the microphone on King and interviews him on his own set, 9-10p.m. (ET);

Wednesday, April 18 – CNN Presents premieres a two-hour special Larry King - 50 Years of Pop Culture. This documentary will focus on the last 50 years of pop culture as seen through King’s bespectacled eyes, including his early days in Miami covering local celebrities and hurricanes to his national radio show that was broadcast from Washington, D.C., to his pioneering cable television move to CNN with a prime-time, worldwide show with audience calls, 9-11p.m. (ET);

Thursday, April 19 – Bill Clinton joins King for an exclusive and engaging interview, 9-10p.m. (ET);

Friday, April 20 – Bill Maher and more than 20 surprise all-star guests celebrate King on his set, 9-10p.m (ET);

Saturday, April 21 – Larry King – 50 Years of Pop Culture, 8-10p.m. (ET);

Sunday, April 22 – Larry King – 50 Years of Pop Culture, 8-10p.m. (ET).

Photographs and a full transcript of all interviews will be available each night and in advance when possible. All guests are subject to change.

In addition, King will appear on CNN programming and radio throughout the week discussing his career and his greatest interviews.

CNN will release Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews, a three-disc DVD collection containing more than nine hours of programming. The collections will feature King’s most compelling interviews with movie and television stars, comedians, talk show hosts, presidents and newsmakers from CNN’s longest-running interview program. The collection will go on sale Tuesday, April 17.

CNN.com highlights King’s 50th anniversary with a special report located at www.CNN.com/LarryKing50. The report includes an interactive timeline reflecting King’s life and his most famous interviews, complete with video and audio clips; several galleries and features offering trivia and statistics about King; an audio quiz that invites users to listen to King ask some of his famous questions and then guess the guest who answers; and a behind-the-scenes look at King’s career as he talks about the evolution of broadcasting over the past 50 years and reveals his tips for a successful interview and the secret to a long career.

Larry King Live airs nightly from 9-10 p.m. (ET). For more information on upcoming shows or to locate past transcripts, visit http://www.CNN.com/larryking. Wendy Walker is the senior executive producer of Larry King Live. Through its global cable networks, CNN will broadcast the Larry King programming to more than 290 million households around the world.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

According to his blog, it looks like Rally Capparas from FlightExplorer.com has been moved to the "Chuck and Linda" timeslot on CNN Headline News.

Also, they're now calling Richard Lui's desk on Robin and Company the "Update Desk".

It is now possible to watch the whole of CNNI's Art of Life, with Monita Rajpal online via CNN.com. By going to www.cnn.com/artoflife, you can watch all three parts of this month's show from Cuba.

This is also true for other programmes, such as Revealed, Talk Asia, Inside The Middle East, Living Golf and Mainsail, all via the respective programme website. Links to all these programmes are available at http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/ and selecting the "Programs" pull-down menu.

CNN Pressroom - Lou Dobbs Reports, Hosts Forums from Tuesday, March 27, to Thursday, March 29

CNN anchor Lou Dobbs takes several of the nation’s hot-button issues – immigration, addiction crisis and the war on the middle class – to the American public next week with a series of prime-time special reports, in addition to his regularly scheduled broadcasts. Dobbs investigates controversial prosecution of two U.S. Border Patrol agents on Tuesday, March 27, and follows that up with two live forums from Washington, D.C., on America’s abuse and addiction to drugs and alcohol and the war on the middle class.

On Tuesday, Dobbs will travel to the federal correctional facility in Yazoo City, Miss., to continue his reporting on Jose Campeon and Ignacio Ramos, two former U.S. Border Patrol agents found guilty of shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler attempting to cross the border in 2005. Dobbs investigates the controversial prosecution as well as claims that Ramos was beaten in jail. Dobbs examines the effort of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) to pass legislation that would pardon Ramos.

Dobbs then travels to Washington, D.C., to continue his national dialogue on the state of drug and alcohol abuse in the United States and the war on the middle class. Before a live audience at George Washington University on Wednesday, Dobbs – as part of his on-going “The War Within” series – discusses the fight against drug addiction and alcohol abuse. On Thursday, Dobbs will discuss health care, education, taxes and other issues impacting the middle class as part of “The War on the Middle Class” forum.

These special reports will all air on CNN/U.S. at 8 p.m. (ET) on their respective days. Lou Dobbs Tonight airs each weekday at 6 p.m. (ET) on CNN/U.S.

Dobbs is a national best-selling author and award-winning journalist. Dobbs joined CNN in 1980 as anchor of Moneyline and is the only original anchor on the air today. While at CNN, Dobbs helped CNN become the leader in television business news and oversaw the launch of CNNfn and CNNfn.com in 1995. He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, and he won an Emmy Award for his groundbreaking series “Exporting America” in 2004. In 2005, the National Academy of Arts and Sciences honored Dobbs with its Lifetime Achievement Emmy for business and financial reporting.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

This morning, CNN Pipeline's Richard Lui is on Robin and Company just giving the "Top Stories" they are following at the quarter of every hour. I wonder if this is a permanent thing with Richard or if the other Pipeline anchors will rotate out here daily?

Also, I think Rally Capparas is gone from Robin & Company, as Meterologist Bob Van Dillen has been providing airport delays for the last week and continues today. He could be out sick or on an extended vacation at his company, but who knows.

We'll keep you updated on both issues as we receive more information.

Donna Krache, executive producer for CNN Student News and Turner Learning, is the recipient of the 2007 DeWitt Carter Reddick Award presented by the University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication. The award is considered one of the highest honors recognizing outstanding people in the field of communication.

Krache will accept the award on Friday, March 23, at the College of Communication’s Honors Day, for which she will also serve as the keynote speaker.

“We found Donna’s work with CNN Student News wonderfully compelling and essential not only for students but for their parents and teachers,” said Roderick R. Hart, dean of the College of Communication. “The world needs more people with her talent, passion, vision and sense of civic mission.”

Krache began her career with Turner Learning’s CNN Newsroom, the predecessor to CNN Student News, in 1991 as an educational consultant and curriculum writer. She contributed to the teacher’s guide for the movie Gettysburg and to the award-winning “Sept. 11, 2001: A Turning Point in History – The First 30 Days” video and education guide. Prior to joining CNN, she taught U.S. history, world history, government, business and comparative economics to middle and high school students.

Krache also heads the team that developed and implements “Leadership Unplugged: A CNN Experience,” a partnership between CNN and 21st Century Leaders, a non-profit with a mission to expand the number and diversity of future leaders,. The program serves Georgia high school students who work for a week in the summer alongside professionals from CNN and Turner Broadcasting System on a program to develop leadership skills through global awareness, media literacy and communication.

Krache holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in education from the University of New Orleans.

“Through Donna’s dedication and the hard work of her staff, CNN Student News and Turner Learning have become important teaching tools for thousands of educators, parents and students across the nation.” said Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services. “We are thrilled that the University of Texas at Austin is recognizing Donna for her commitment, passion and great work. She truly deserves the accolades of this prestigious award. All of us at CNN congratulate her on this wonderful honor.”

DeWitt Carter Reddick was the first dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas. He also was director of the School of Journalism from 1959 to 1965, teaching thousands of journalism students, including Walter Cronkite, Karen Elliott House, Lady Bird Johnson and Ben Sargent from 1927 until his retirement in 1975. Established in 1974, the DeWitt Carter Reddick Award recognizes excellence in the field of communication. Past Reddick Award recipients include: Walter Cronkite, Molly Ivins, Bill Moyers, William S. Paley, William J. Raspberry, Helen Thomas, Ted Turner and Bill Wittliff, among others.

CNN Student News, CNN's cost-and-commercial-free educational program for middle and high schools is the cornerstone of Turner Learning and uses the vast resources of the CNN Worldwide to create news and information content specifically for the classroom. CNN Student News airs on Headline News, Monday - Friday throughout the school year at 3:12 a.m. (ET). The show is also streamed for the Web at www.CNN.com/Education. CNN Student News, along with CNN Student News, along with CNN Classroom Edition, which includes commercial free programming from CNN: Special Investigations Unit and CNN Presents which is CNN's contribution to Cable in the Classroom.

Turner Learning, Inc. is part of CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS). Turner Learning is dedicated to being the leading source of news and information for the classroom, creating educational outreach programs across the many divisions of TBS. By creating the highest-quality, most innovative programming, products and services; leveraging Turner assets; and creating instructional solutions valued by teachers, Turner Learning seeks to inspire youth to understand the world in which they live, and become better-informed global citizens. For more information on Turner Learning offerings, educators may visit our Web site at http://www.CNN.com/Education.

And they've slightly modified their main page at www.cnnenespanol.com and launched a new site www.cnne10.com.

CNN Pressroom - CNN ImageSource, the footage licensing arm of CNN Worldwide, has launched a dramatically redesigned Web site that provides filmmakers, corporations, media producers and other video professionals with the ability to browse video from its extensive collection of news, entertainment and lifestyle footage.

The CNN ImageSource online catalog contains more than 400,000 items, and the collection comprises footage owned by the network and material from sources it represents, which at present are more than 700 U.S. news affiliates and the French news agency AFP. The new Web site offers registered users access to more than 80,000 video items for browsing and provides features such as online ordering, saved searches and FTP delivery of non-watermarked, high-resolution files.

“Providing access to CNN ImageSource’s footage archive through the Internet enables us to truly put the wealth of our content at our clients’ command,” said Kathy Christensen, vice president, News Archives & Research, CNN. “With this new service, customers get quick turnaround on the high-quality footage they want and need.”

The archive dates back to 1980 and is accessible at www.CNNImageSource.com. In addition to news footage, the Web site includes science and technology, travel, entertainment and sports video, and consists of both uncut and edited material, giving users a wide variety of video to browse.

Headquartered in Atlanta with an office in London, CNN ImageSource maintains an historic archive of material amassed from more than 25 years of the network’s newsgathering operation. It also represents footage from more than 700 CNN affiliates and the French news agency AFP. Established in 1987, the division handles footage licensing, talent clearance, public display and transcript reprint permissions and third-party representation deals. Its Web site, www.CNNImageSource.com, provides online search and ordering, video browse and digital file fulfillment.

Do you think "The Screening Room" should be a worldwide show (shown on all CNN Networks) or just stay on CNN/I? All Networks CNN/I Only Only CNN/US and CNN/I Current Results

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Premiers Friday 30 March at 5:30pm

"The Screening Room," CNN's new monthly movie show presented by Myleene Klass, brings you the inside track on all aspects of the movie business around the globe.

Learn more at http://www.cnn.com/thescreeningroom.

Look for a "The Screening Room" related poll coming soon to CNN Observations.

CNN Pressroom - Back-to-back Debates in 2008 Feature Republican Candidates on Jan. 30, Democratic Hopefuls on Jan. 31

CNN and the Los Angeles Times have teamed up to sponsor two key presidential debates in California in the days preceding the Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5, 2008. Republican presidential candidates will meet on Jan. 30, 2008, while the Democratic candidates will gather on Jan. 31.

Information on exact times, locations and other details of these debates will be forthcoming.

“Now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has moved the California primaries to Feb. 5, Californians, along with other Super Tuesday voters, will influence the presidential nomination process earlier than ever before,” said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. “We’re delighted to continue our traditional debates with the Los Angeles Times in the days before those critical primaries to help millions of Americans cast the most informed votes possible.”

“California's voters will play an enormously important role in the outcome of the 2008 election, and the Los Angeles Times is honored to co-host these historic debates,” said Los Angeles Times Publisher David D. Hiller. “As the essential source for news and information in Southern California, The Times looks forward to working with CNN again to bring the presidential contenders together in a public forum.”

To date, CNN has officially announced its sponsorship of several key presidential debates for the 2008 campaign, including two in New Hampshire in June 2007, another in Nevada slated for November 2007 and one in South Carolina planned for January 2008.

The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of nearly 2.2 million and 3.3 million on Sunday. The Los Angeles Times and its media businesses - including latimes.com, TheEnvelope/theenvelope.com, Times Community Newspapers, Recycler Classifieds, Hoy, and California Community News - reach approximately 8.1 million or 62% of all adults in the Southern California marketplace every week.

The Los Angeles Times, has been covering Southern California for over 125 years and is part of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), one of the country's leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internet and broadcasting. Additional information about the Los Angeles Times is available at www.latimes.com/mediacenter.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

CNN Pressroom - CNN Radio and Headline News anchor Renay San Miguel tackle the latest developments in technology in “Digital Downbeat.” This long-form program examines everything from satellite radio to online music to high-definition radio. “Digital Downbeat” was produced by CNN Radio supervising producer Sherri Maksin.

The four-part “Digital Downbeat” show examines the issue of digital rights management in the wake of comments from Apple Chairman Steve Jobs, who wants the recording industry to ease up on restrictions placed on downloading music; the proposed merger of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio and what it means for their subscribers as well as terrestrial radio broadcasters; the current state of online music, especially as more artists debut their songs on the Internet; and the future of high-definition radio.

The program’s impressive slate of guests include Jerry del Colliano, founder of Inside Radio; Steven Levy, chief technology writer for Newsweek; Dave Ramsey, president of Hear 2.0; Dan Sheeran, vice president of Real Networks; Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America; Bob Struble, president of iBiquity Digital Corp.; and Dennis Wharton of the National Association of Broadcasters.

“Digital Downbeat” is now available to CNN Radio stations on the private affiliate Web site and as a podcast at www.CNN.com/services/podcasting/

Here are some excerpts from the program. Please credit CNN Radio in all uses.

Jerry del Colliano on the future of high-definition radio:

The CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) ruling could be terminal for Internet radio. But it’s the consumer that will be hurt the most as Wi-Fi becomes the technology to get Internet streams wherever you are. HD radio is a turkey. The generation that loves radio is NOT “Generation Y.” The generation that loves radio is not buying HD Radios, so there’s no future.

Cary Sherman on illegal downloads:

The RIAA is asking colleges and universities to step up, show their students that there are consequences to illegal downloading.

Mark Ramsey on radio mergers and consolidation:

The NAB was all for radio consolidation but opposes satellite radio consolidation. Merger conversation is a distraction because of the low number of subscribers – 14 million. Radio overall is healthy. The opportunity is to spread programming across numerous platforms – the Internet, podcasting, etc. – and do a better job of pleasing consumers.

Steven Levy on Internet music:

The Internet has allowed musicians to go further without a record label. Because production costs are low, you don’t need a blockbuster album in order to be profitable.

CNN Radio is a full-service network, providing its approximately 2,000 worldwide affiliates with the latest information in news, sports and business. Utilizing CNN’s 36 bureaus worldwide, CNN Radio offers an unmatched menu of actualities and reports through satellite feeds and an affiliate-accessible Web site. CNN Radio is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, with personnel, including radio-only correspondents, located at the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York. CNN Radio programming is distributed exclusively for radio broadcast in the United States by Westwood One. CNN Radio audio can also be heard via a link on the www.CNN.com Web site.

Tom Foreman

I'm currently watching Paula Zahn Now and Anderson Cooper just came in after a commercial with a "CNN Biz Break". Does he normally do this? Seems a little strange, but I don't always watch Paula so it could be a normal thing. One would think that a CNN Business News correspondent (Susan Lisovicz, Valerie Morris, Carrie Lee, Kitty Pilgrim, etc.) would do something like this.

Kevin Corriveau - Meterologist - CNN International
Steve Kastenbaum - New York Correspondent - CNN Radio
Brian Todd - Washington Correspondent - The Situation Room

TVNewser - Valerie Morris is leaving CNN after 11 years of financial reporting and anchoring. In an e-mail to colleagues, Morris says:

"I was offered a new, two year contract by CNN but I've known for some time since CNNfn went off the air that my passion truly is financial literacy -- especially for women and people of color -- two segments of the population for whom there needs to be a consistent and deliberate message about how to get into the wealth-building game. That's my purpose."

She'll be anchoring a syndicated weekly program, with details to be announced in about two weeks.

Correspondent Alex Quade Profiles Elite Military Team Charged with Rescuing Troops in Field of Combat

Operating under the motto of “That Others May Live,” the Guardian Angel Weapons System assembles pararescuemen, combat rescue officers and specialists of survival, evasion, resistance and escape into an elite team tasked with rescuing military personnel from the fields of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pilots and aircrews, special helicopters and fighter aircraft round out the Combat Search and Rescue team. Through unprecedented access, The Situation Room on CNN/U.S. and Glenn Beck on Headline News tell for the first time the story about these specialized rescue units from the frontlines and with never-before-seen war zone video and pictures.

These reports extend across multiple platforms, airing the week of Monday, March 19, during The Situation Room and Glenn Beck. The Situation Room airs on CNN/U.S. each weekday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Glenn Beck airs each weekday on Headline News at 7 p.m. with replays at 9 p.m. and midnight. All times Eastern.

In “Combat Search and Rescue,” CNN correspondent Alex Quade takes viewers behind-the-scenes to reveal what it takes for a rescue helicopter to hover as low as six inches above buildings in urban areas amid enemy fire to hoist injured military personnel to safety. Amid her reporting, Quade and viewers experience – in full - a mass casualty situation in the water as well as a covert mission in the dead of night.

In addition, Quade will provide special reports for CNN.com, which will be available next week at www.CNN.com/CNN/Programs/beck.combat/. A preview of the series will also air on various CNN/U.S. and Headline News programming on Saturday, March 17, and Sunday, March 18.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

CNN Pressroom - Top Latin American News Network Boasts Reach of 21 Million Viewers, including 3.6 Million in U.S.

CNN en Español, the innovative and top-rated Spanish-language news network in Latin America, marks its 10th anniversary with a series of initiatives and programming throughout the year highlighting the events and personalities that have made major news in Latin America and throughout the world over the past decade.

Today, the network unveils a commemorative anniversary logo on air to mark 10 years of broadcasting that began on March 17, 1997, and now reaches more than 21 million Spanish speakers throughout Latin America, which includes 3.6 million in the United States.

“We are proud to commemorate our tenth anniversary, which marks a milestone in the history of Spanish-language television journalism,” says Christopher Crommett, the network’s senior vice president. “CNN en Español is the most trusted source for news among our loyal audience in Latin America and, increasingly, among Spanish speakers in the United States. And our reach even extends to Canada, Spain, and Japan where segments of our programming are aired. We are grateful for the confidence our audience has shown us for the past ten years, and we have laid the groundwork to serve our discerning audience even better in the future.”

Special programming will begin on Thursday, March 15, at 9 p.m. (ET) with 10 Years of CNN en Español- Latin America, hosted by Patricia Janiot, CNN en Español’s senior anchor. The program will highlight the most relevant events in Latin America from the past 10 years and include coverage from the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Peru; the legal battle to extradite Pinochet from London; the destruction brought about by Hurricane Mitch, the devastating earthquake in Colombia and the floods in Venezuela; and coverage of the political races and issues in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela.

The program also examines the future of Latin America through the eyes of CNN en Español correspondents, taking a look at what is to come in the next 10 years with respect to the global climate, energy crisis, social changes, expanding markets and new economic alliances throughout the region.

On Saturday, March 17, CNN en Español will present another special titled Latin America and the United States: Politics of Rancor.

A series of commemorative programming will continue with various specials each month discussing a variety of topics: April - business, May – sports, June – technology, July – entertainment, August – personal finance, September – health and family, October – global business, November – fashion, and December – global news.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

CNN Pressroom - Key Guests Dominate Situation Room Line-up for Today, Friday

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will answer questions today from CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer following Schwarzenegger’s announcement that his state’s presidential primary will be moved to Feb. 5, 2008. The date change is expected to have an impact on the New Hampshire primary and other early contests. The interview will air during the 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. hours of The Situation Room. Also appearing on today’s program will be Republican National Committee chairman Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and talk show host and author Hugh Hewitt.

Blitzer will then interview businessman Donald Trump and recovering ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his wife, Lee, on the Friday, March 16, edition of The Situation Room.

The Situation Room airs each weekday from 4-6 p.m. (ET) and returns from 7-8 p.m. (ET). Eric Sherling is the executive producer.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

From David: Give Kiran her own show and let her shine completely and you will have the number 1 show on TV. There's simply no doubt about it.

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CNN Pressroom - Roland S. Martin, a nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago-based radio host, will join CNN, it was announced today by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. Martin will serve as a contributor across several programs effective immediately, and, in the coming months, the network will develop various other programming concepts around him.

“As a multifaceted journalist steeped in the traditions of storytelling and truth-seeking, Roland offers a powerful voice on subjects ranging from politics to religion to race to numerous other social issues,” Klein said. “We’re very pleased to have him contribute to a wide range of CNN stories.”

“CNN has made a sincere commitment to giving its audience a breadth of important stories not typically found in mainstream media,” Martin said. “I am pleased to be a part of that effort and to do my part to see they rise to that challenge.”

A nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, Martin most recently served as executive editor of the Chicago Defender, the nation’s largest black daily newspaper. He is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and hosts The Roland S. Martin Show on WVON/1690AM in Chicago each weekday. He is the author of Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith and Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America.

As an analyst, Martin has appeared numerous times on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Court TV, BET Nightly News, BBC News, National Public Radio, The Word Network and America’s Black Forum.

He is the former founding news editor for Savoy magazine and the former founding editor of BlackAmericaWeb.com, owned by nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner and Radio One.

Martin previously served as owner/publisher of Dallas-Fort Worth Heritage, a Christian monthly newspaper and worked as managing editor of the Houston Defender and the Dallas Weekly. He also has worked for KRLD/1080AM, KKDA-AM in Dallas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Austin American-Statesman.

During his journalism career, Martin has won more than 20 awards, including a regional Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association; several first place awards from the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators; two citations from the National Associated Press Managing Editors Conference; the top sports reporting award in 1997 from the National Association of Black Journalists; and honors from the Houston Press Club.

He earned a bachelor’s of science degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and is currently working on a master’s degree in Christian communications at Louisiana Baptist University. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

At 1546 gmt, CNNI broke out of the re-run of "Blood On The Stone" for a Live Event. Rosemary Church live at CNN Center crossed over to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zabari speaking live at the one-day Iraqi security conference.

After a few minutes, Zabari started taking questions from reporters. Unfortunately, the dialogue moved into Arabic and CNNI obviously didn't have a translator to hand.

Despite Rosemary trying to ad-lib until he spoke again in English, he only answered one more question in English before moving back into Arabic.

Blood On The Stone continued at 1553 gmt.

This weekend, the United States moves into daylight saving time, three weeks before most of the rest of the world. As a result, the CNN/I schedule will change from Monday 12 March 2007.

These appear to be the main changes:

• World News (as opposed to World News Asia) is at 1200 gmt

• World Sport is at 1230 gmt

• World News Asia is now at 1300 gmt

• Your World Today will now start at 1400 gmt

• All "evening" (European time) programmes will now be an hour earlier, therefore World Business Today at 1830 and 1930 gmt, World News Europe at 1900 and 2000 gmt, World Sport at 2030 gmt, Business International at 2100 gmt

• There is a new edition of World News at 2200 gmt, followed by World Sport at 2230 gmt

• The AC360 simulcast with CNN/US is now live at 0200 gmt

• There is a new rerun of Larry King Live at 0400 gmt

CNN Pressroom - Fatal Journey, Due for March 10 Premiere, Tracks Tragic Accident, Examines Highway Safety in U.S. Cities

In the pre-dawn hours of Friday, March 2, a charter bus transporting the Bluffton University baseball team to Sarasota, Florida, tore through a guardrail and plunged 30 feet onto Interstate 75 near downtown Atlanta. The accident took the lives of four players, the bus driver and the bus driver’s wife.

CNN: Special Investigations Unit – Fatal Journey will investigate both the accident and whether highway safety is being compromised by the urgent need for more highway capacity in America’s growing cities. Fatal Journey airs on Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, March 11, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. All times Eastern.

CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin and CNN: Special Investigations Unit will employ a bus and helicopter to re-enact the fateful journey of the Ohio students.

Speaking to survivors and their families, transportation authorities, rescue workers and traffic experts, CNN will scrutinize the accident, examine lessons learned from similar accident investigations and focus on what can be done to prevent future accidents. CNN also visits with a family struggling to cope with the loss of a son in the accident and listens as surviving players ponder why they survived while others lost their lives.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live news video service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and one Web site.

CNN Pressroom - Headline News anchor Thomas Roberts reveals for the first time on television his personal account of the abuse he suffered at the hands of a Roman Catholic priest during Anderson Cooper 360º on Monday, March 12. For a powerful and sometimes wrenching hour, Roberts discusses the abuse by Father Jerome F. Toohey Jr., known as “Father Jeff,” from 1987 to 1990 and his journey to overcome the scars and bring his abuser to justice.

Prosecutors in Maryland pressed charges against Toohey for sexually abusing Roberts. Toohey pleaded guilty and was sentenced in February 2006 for five years in prison. After serving less than 10 months he was released into home detention to serve the rest of his sentence.

“Sins of the Father” airs at 10 p.m. (ET) during the first hour of Anderson Cooper 360°.

Below are excerpts from “Sins of the Father" courtesy of Anderson Cooper 360°.

Roberts on the abuse:

It's probably the worst place you can be in your life. Because there's so much shame that goes along with this. There's secrecy. There's shame. There's self-hatred, self-doubt. Uh, every mixed up emotion you can have that you don't feel you can talk to anybody. It was the most twisted and turned-around environment that I could have ever have been in and coming from a place of struggle as a child and into a young boy. It was a prison. I mean it was like backing me into a corner with nowhere to go.

I was robbed here. Of my self-respect, of my own image. You know part of my soul even. This place paralyzed me thinking I would die with this secret. I would die with this secret.

Roberts on the judicial system:

I don't know how to define justice in this. What's justice? I mean, what . . . do I get early release from this? No. You don't get early release from knowing what happened to you. Do you get early release from the shame and the secrets and the lies and the cover-up and all of that? You just don't. You just have to deal with the fact that that was your life. You did it, you had to put up with it to survive, and it'll be your story for the rest of your life. No early release from this story.
Roberts on seeing Toohey in church:

I thought how people respected him. I thought how people really looked up to this man. Even--not even understanding what was happening to me, you still have respect for this man in this position as your priest. And I realized also that he had the power, not me.

Anderson Cooper 360° is a wide-ranging, unconventional news program that takes a full 360-degree look at the world’s events. The program showcases CNN’s worldwide newsgathering capabilities as well as Anderson Cooper’s unique sensibilities and perspective through a diverse range of live reports and interviews. Anderson Cooper 360° airs on CNN/U.S. each weekday from 10 p.m. to midnight. (ET)

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

CNN Pressroom - CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Four Young Doctors Guide Viewers Inside Busy Inner City Hospital

The experiences of Dr. John Carter on E.R. and Dr. McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy might make for fascinating television drama, but the lives of actual young doctors are even more exciting. The personal dramas and life-saving work of medical residents are the subjects of a new documentary, CNN: Special Investigations Unit – Grady’s Anatomy, which will premiere on Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25, at 8 p.m. and 11p.m. All times Eastern.

More than 900 medical residents practice at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the busiest Level 1 trauma hospitals in the Southeast. Based in the bustling southern city of Atlanta, Grady offers non-stop action, and physicians-in-training have to be prepared for almost anything.

Four Grady residents – and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta – allowed CNN to shadow them as they juggled their professional and personal lives. An experienced attending neurosurgeon at Grady, Gupta also serves as CNN’s chief medical correspondent, reporting from conflict zones and natural disasters around the world. In an emergency situation, he once operated with a Black and Decker drill while reporting from the battlefront in Iraq.

For three weeks, CNN followed Dr. Nii-Daako Darko, Dr. Robin Lowman, Dr. Andrea Meinerz and Dr. Luis Tumialàn on rounds through the emergency room and the operating room as well as during their free time for a game of high stakes poker, a baby feeding … and even a little bird watching. The residents include:

· Dr. Nii-Daako Darko, whose parents emigrated from Ghana in West Africa. A first-year surgical intern, Darko grew up in near Newark, N.J., and says that he relates to the personal struggles of his inner city patients. He describes Dr. Cliff Huxtable of The Cosby Show as his inspiration;

· Dr. Andrea Meinerz, who spends her few free evenings with her husband bird-watching and tending to their two ferrets. As a release from her hectic schedule, Meinerz also plays poker, often using her skills as a first-year neurology medicine resident to analyze her opponents’ reactions;

· Dr. Robin Lowman, a second generation physician who grew up shadowing her father during his rounds in a hospital emergency room. An emergency medicine resident, Lowman is also a talented singer. She performed off-Broadway before her residency and still writes and records her own music;

· Dr. Luis Tumialàn, a fifth-year neurosurgery resident and former U.S. Navy diver and medic, who balances his professional responsibilities with his duties at home as a new father. In the documentary, he consults with Gupta on patients and performs delicate brain surgery.

Grady’s Anatomy also takes a look at how this group of young doctors manages their training around recent restrictions on the number of consecutive hours medical residents are allowed to work. In 2003, new national guidelines limited the number to no more than 30 consecutive hours, and an average of no more than 80 hours per week. While some doctors say the restrictions prevent doctors from becoming overly tired and improve patient care, others believe these restrictions do not reflect real medical practice and do not allow enough flexibility for unpredictable, on-the-job learning opportunities.

“This may be one of the biggest changes that we’ve seen in medical education in the last few decades – limiting now the number of hours that we can actually train residents,” Gupta says in the documentary.

The executive producer for this program is Bud Bultman; the vice president and senior executive producer for CNN Productions is Mark Nelson.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live news video service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

The Associated Press is reporting that Headline News host Nancy Grace will guest-star on NBC's Law and Order: SVU during the Season Finale.

CNN Headline News' morning show Robin and Company is sporting new Lower-Third graphics today. I'll post some pictures later of the new look. Stay tuned!

From around 1700 gmt today, CNNI broke off You World Today for a live relay of CNN Newsroom from CNN/US, with breaking news coverage of the CIA leak perjury trial verdict, with Lewis Libby found guilty on four of five counts.

Jim Clancy and Hala Gorani took back CNNI's control at 1720 gmt with continuing coverage of the verdict. It is assumed that CNN continued with their own coverage, rather than taking Your World Today.

From yesterday, Max Foster has been in Atlanta co-anchoring Your World Today with Colleen McEdwards. Max is usually to be found co-anchoring CNN Today, or Business International, from London.

It is not known if this is a temporary or long-term arrangement, but it has been known to happen before (recently, Richard Quest spent a few week's co-hosting Your World Today).

CNN Pressroom - ‘The Screening Room’ premieres Friday, March 30 at 1:30p ET

CNN International yesterday announced the launch of a new half-hour monthly movie show called ‘The Screening Room.’ Premiering on Friday, March 30 at 1:30pm ET, ‘The Screening Room’ offers a compelling international perspective on the world of film by traveling around the globe to bring viewers the inside track on all aspects of the movie business.

Hosted by British television presenter Myleene Klass, ‘The Screening Room’ features a mix of revealing insights, intelligent interviews and on-location reporting from film festivals and red-carpet events. From independent and world cinema to blockbusters and documentaries, each month ‘The Screening Room’ offers movie news, reviews and global charts.

Each show explores the art of the world's most talented actors, directors, composers and screenwriters. From L.A. to London, Tokyo to Tribeca, Sydney to Sundance, the show will go to the essential film festivals. Also, ‘The Screening Room’ covers in-depth features ranging from animation, documentaries and short films to issues such as the perils of piracy.

“This is an important addition to our suite of feature shows, which offers a compelling mix of programming. Every month ‘The Screening Room’ will go to Hollywood and beyond to bring the most compelling and dynamic aspects of the film world to CNN’s vast international audience,” said Rena Golden, senior vice president of CNN International. “With our global reach, CNN is ideally placed to travel the globe and cover stories from the movie business in every continent.”

Show host Myleene Klass said: “I’m overwhelmed to be part of something so groundbreaking for CNN - the network’s first movie show. CNN has kudos and gravitas all over world, and that strong brand will ensure that I will get the very best interviews. One thing is for sure, if I wasn’t part of ‘The Screening Room’, I’d be glued to my seat watching it!”

‘The Screening Room’ is supported by a micro site that launches March 30, www.cnn.com/thescreeningroom, where users can download episodes of the show, read Myleene’s monthly blog as well as movie reviews and news.

‘The Screening Room’ can be seen on CNN International at the following times (all times ET):

Friday, March 30 at 1:30pm; Saturday, March 31 at 3:30a and 9:30a

About Myleene Klass

Myleene first shot to fame as one of the winning contestants on the 2001 ITV1 music series 'Popstars'. In 2003, she signed a solo deal with Universal releasing a hit classical album. September 2005 saw Myleene take up the role of presenter on ITV1 music show "cd:uk". A flood of presenting offers followed with Myleene taking up roles on BBC1’s “Heaven and Earth Show”, “The Proms”, “GMTV”, "X Factor", "The All Star Talent Show” and “Ghost Towns”. Myleene has also proved to be a popular radio DJ, hosting the breakfast show every Sunday on Classic FM.

In November 2005 Myleene took on her biggest challenge yet, spending three weeks in the Australian jungle as part of ITV1’s “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here”. Myleene’s natural charm and positive personality secured her crown as “Queen Of The Jungle”, firmly winning a place in the hearts of the nation in the process. March 2007 will see her take a presenting role on BBC1’s new Saturday night show “The People’s Quiz”.

Each week we'll post a new video we've found related to CNN. This week, an image promo for Alberto Padilla of CNN En Español:

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I've spent an hour or so over the weekend playing with the newly-launched CNN Mobile service. Before this week, I had often wondered why CNN did not have a mobile internet news service. Well, they did but it wasn't a full service. For some years, CNN offered a software download in conjunction with a third party software company. However, all the software did each time it was activated was download the last ten stories from CNN.com. This was better than nothing, until I upgraded my phone to a Nokia 6233 last year, which wasn't compatible with the software.

So until now, I found myself using the BBC's fantastic mobile news service which was fast, comprehensive and pleasant to use.

CNN's new service started on 1 March, somewhat quietly. The first I knew about it was on 2 March, when I spotted it advertised on the on-screen flipper on CNNI. I immediately checked it out.

My first impression was that it appeared to be a CNN International approach, as opposed to CNN/US. Indeed, the logo at the top of the home page is that of CNNI. Overall, the page looked very good on screen. Obviously much of this depends on how your phone is set up, but - with what I believe are the default settings on mine - the screen was clear and uncluttered.

On going to the home page, you are presented with the CNNI logo and the top four stories. The top story of the four is in a grey box, and has a related image beside it.

On scrolling down, a banner for CNN.com's international video news headlines round-up World News Now appears, which you can watch on the phone. Unfortunately, on trying to do this I was shown a message which told me that my phone could not support the video format used.

There is the obligatory advertisement on the homepage. Like the previous software-based cellphone offering, and the PC tickers and alerts services that CNN offers, there is only one advertiser shown in this slot, which hasn't changed from day one - it's been Lexus all the way. Of course, clicking on the Lexus logo takes you to their advertisement.

Below all of this (quite a bit of scrolling) you are finally presented with all of the sections of the mobile website. Categories are colour coded, just like CNNI - green for sport, blue for business etc. The categories are as follows:

Top Stories, World News, Business, Weather, Sport, Entertainment and Lifestyle, Science and Technology, In the Field blog (in the form of a banner advertisement), More CNN services and help.

In the weather section of the home page, I automatically see the current day's forecast for London. As this is the city I currently reside in, I'm not sure if this is on purpose or just coinicidence, so I'm interested in what others see here.

When you go to an article in any section, you are presented with a small graphic related to the story. There is a magnifying glass below, which you can click to see a larger, high quality version of the same image.

A good move by CNN is how the text is displayed. Quite a large amount of text is on screen at any one time, and some stories can be stretched over as many as ten pages. On a tiny screen, this can get quite tiring on the eye. However, CNN have alternated between white and grey backgrounds from paragraph to paragraph - a simple idea which makes a huge difference when it comes to breaking things up a little. Your brain is no longer trained to read to the end of each page, but to the end of each paragraph, which is less tiresome.

At the bottom of each page of text is a link to go to the next page of the story, and a link to move to the next story in the category.

In each of the category pages there is a link to the home page, and midway through the pages there are some in-depth feature articles. However, oddly these are rarely releated to the category you are viewing. For instance, this evening there was an in-depth report on a skiing tournament in Eastern Europe within the business page.

CNN's online service has excelled for over 10 years when it comes to weather. CNN Mobile is no exception. On going to the weather page you are presented with a list of cities, and there is a text box to search for another of the 10,000 cities for which CNN provides 5-day forecasts. Temperature information and graphical depictions of weather conditions are displayed.

Under the "More CNN Services" section, the only information offered are details of the CNN i-Report citizen journalism service. Perhaps there will be more to come in future.

Overall, I'm very impressed with the service. However, the BBC mobile service is more pleasant to use. The writing style on the BBC's online services is more tailored towards the technology that people use to read it. CNN's style of writing is more compariable to that found in tangible newspapers, and a little more involved. Therefore, when reading such a style on a smaller screen, it is a little trickier than reading BBC articles - which are still quality pieces of writing, but written for purpose.

That said, CNN Mobile is an important move. It's not a new method of providing news generally, so CNN have had plenty of time to see for themselves what works and what doesn't from other news agency services. If someone wants a better service, I would suggest BBC. But if they want their news from CNN, CNN Mobil works well.

CNN Mobile can be visited by typing www.cnnmobile.com into your cellphone's internet broswer.

What does this mean for CNN and CNN En Español? Visit Variety.com for more. (via tvnewser)

CNN Pressroom - Steve Kastenbaum has joined CNN Radio as a New York-based correspondent, it was announced today by Jerry DeMink, vice president, CNN News Services. Kastenbaum most recently worked as a news reporter with 1010 WINS Radio in New York City.

“Steve comes to the CNN Radio network with considerable broadcasting skills and an impressive slate of experience,” DeMink said. “We are thrilled to have him onboard, giving us and our partner stations top-notch reports from yet another exceptionally experienced CNN Radio journalist.”

Kastenbaum joined 1010 WINS Radio, a CBS Radio station and a top-rated all-news radio station, in 1993 as a news production assistant, eventually becoming an education reporter and news reporter. His assignments included the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the war in Afghanistan, the 2003 blackout, the murder of a New York City councilmember at City Hall and the 2004 Republican Convention.

He also has worked as a New York-based stringer for both the Associated Press and ABC Radio News and as a traffic and weather announcer for Shadow Broadcast Services in Rutherford, N.J. He began his broadcast career in 1989 as a disc jockey for WDRE/92.7FM in Long Island, N.Y.

Kastenbaum majored in broadcast technology at Kingsborough Community College in New York. He has earned more than a half dozen state and regional awards from the Associated Press, the New York Press Club and the Radio-Television News Directors Association.

CNN Radio is a full-service network, providing its approximately 2,000 worldwide affiliates with the latest information in news, sports and business. Utilizing CNN's 36 bureaus worldwide, CNN Radio offers an unmatched menu of actualities and reports through satellite feeds and an affiliate-accessible Web site. CNN Radio is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, with personnel, including radio-only correspondents, located at the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York. CNN Radio programming is distributed exclusively for radio broadcast in the United States by Westwood One. CNN Radio audio can also be heard via a link on the www.CNN.com Web site.

CNN Pressroom - CNN Radio puts a spotlight on America’s public fascination with pornography in a special one-hour program hosted by Headline News anchor Erica Hill. “For Adults Only?” will examine the adult entertainment industry as a whole, its future, the companies that profit from it and the effects pornography has on people, their relationships and the local community.

“For Adults Only?” airs Tuesday, Feb. 20, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (ET) CNN Radio supervising producer John Lisk produced the program.

For the special, Hill will interview several guests including husband and wife acting team, Tera Patrick and Evan Seinfeld aka “Spyder Jonez”; Paul Fishbein, publisher of Adult Video News; Steven Hirsch, co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, the largest maker of adult films in the world; and sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein.

“For Adults Only?” also will be available on CNN.com’s podcasting page, which can be found at http://www.CNN.com/podcasting/. Additionally, CNN Radio programming, including long-form programs, are streamed for the Web on the CNN.com home page.

CNN Radio is a full-service network, providing its approximately 2,000 worldwide affiliates with the latest information in news, sports and business. Utilizing CNN's 36 bureaus worldwide, CNN Radio offers an unmatched menu of actualities and reports through satellite feeds and an affiliate-accessible Web site. CNN Radio is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, with personnel, including radio-only correspondents, located at the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York. CNN Radio programming is distributed exclusively for radio broadcast in the United States by Westwood One. CNN Radio audio can also be heard via a link on the www.CNN.com Web site.

This morning, Christina Park is filling in for Susan Hendricks on CNN Headline News. Does anyone know more about her? She's been at CNN for a while it seems, long enough to once have a bio page at CNN.com. Here's that bio from 2005:

Christina Park is an anchor with CNN QUICKCAST, a fast-paced hourly web-exclusive newscast produced by CNN for several broadband Internet access providers. Named to this position in 2002, Park is based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta.

Park joined CNN in 1999, working in several areas, including CNN and CNN Headline News. Before her current position, she worked as a medical and health producer for CNN Headline News. She has also reported on Headline News as well as for CNN, CNN International and as an anchor for CNN Student News.

During her tenure at CNN, Park has helped launch a number of programs, including CNNdotCOM, where she produced the Internet "how-to" segments called "Tools." She also helped with the launch of CNN's profile-style program, People in the News. In August 2001, she moved to Headline News to help with the launch of the revamped network.

Park has won multiple honors for her professional work, including a National Headliner Award for her work with CNNdotCOM. She is also a member of
the Atlanta Press Club.

Park graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in neuroscience. A native of Atlanta, she was a concert pianist for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and is fluent in Korean.

CNN and Mexican business magazine Expansión have teamed up to launch an online Spanish-language business website CNNExpansion.com. The site launched Sunday 25 February 2007.

Thanks to Rodrigo for the head's up.

On 1 March 2007, CNN launched it's new browsable mobile/cellphone service CNN Mobile. By typing cnnmobile.com into your cellphone's internet broswer, you can now use a cellphone-friendly news service modelled on CNN.com.

Graphics are kept to a minimum, although the full text of stories appears to be intact.

There are four regional versions of CNN Mobile - Europe/Middle East/Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific/South Asia and North America. Most mobile services should automatically take you to your relevant region.

From cnnmobile.com on your cellphone, you can also watch the hourly World News Now updates, search a 14-day news archive and read the new CNN In the Field blog.

The service is only available on cellphones. If you go to www.cnnmobile.com on the conventional internet, you will be taken to a website with information about the service, plus details on how to access it. There is also a demo of the service on the website.

I've tried it on my own cellphone here in England, and so far I'm very impressed with it. It's a much more comprehensive service that the software-based mobile service CNN has offered for a number of years.

I plan to do a full review of the service over the weekend. Keep checking CNN Observations for that.

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13 of the top 15 shows are from Fox. By definition, only Fox is supplying something that the majority of the market wants. Fox must be laughing all the way to the bank while the others keep pushing products that the market is clearly not buying. Wouldn’t you think that a rational manager concerned with shareholder value at CNN or MSNBC would have figured this out by now and done something about it? Hasn’t this been the case for 4 or 5 years? - Steve

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We've had many e-mails recently to our feedback form about Kiran Chetry.

As far as I know, as of now she doesn't have a permanent spot on CNN's daily lineup. Once we receive more information we will definitely pass it along to you.

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