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Christiane Amanpour is the child of an English mother and an Iranian father. She was born in London, England but grew up in Tehran, Iran. Her desire to become a journalist began when a revolution broke out in Iran and her family went into exile. She received her college education at the University of Rhode Island and studied journalism. After college she remained in Rhode Island and started working as a radio reporter and producer for WBRU. In 1983 she became an international reporter for CNN. In 1985, she reported form her home nation in Iran and this was where she begun to be recognized. At this time, she also won the Dupont Award. Her international recognition sparked when she reported the Bosnian crisis. During this crisis, she reported about the difficult life for the people living in the area and uncovered the harshness of the war. She has also reported news from places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, Asia, and Rwanda.   As an international r

The North supported the war mainly due to their objection against slavery. The journalism in the North talked a lot about defeating the Confederate states. The newspapers in the North was “exaggerating Union victories and minimizing Union defeats.” This shows how much the North relied on journalism to report the details relating to the war. Everything about the war mattered to the North, so they spent a lot of time making critical analysis concerning the war. Some of the North’s journalist publications were the “Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Washington Morning Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Springfield Republican.” Since the journalists were interested so much in the war, they spent a lot of their time reporting from the war fronts. For example, Samuel Wilkeson describes wearing the same flannel shirt for five weeks. Many reporters went through the hardships and dangers of the war as well as many being killed and captured.             Journalism in the South was not