CNN International

CNN International (CNNI) is CNNs international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, sports, opinions, features and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner.

CNN International is available in most countries, distributed via satellite, cable, IPTV and DTT. Its international reach is more than 200 million households and hotel rooms in over 200 countries. For most viewers it is free-to-air, though some pay TV companies include it in their pay TV packages, or issue a virtual channel to the FTA version on the same satellite. Starting late 2010, the domestic version CNN/U.S., is available in high definition to viewers in Japan under the name CNN HD. If this is a one-off case or the beginning of an international roll-out of CNN HD with more countries to come is unclear at present.

The current managing director of CNN International is Tony Maddox.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph J. "Joe" Curry (1887 - 1 April 1936) was an English footballer. His regular position was at full back. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He played for Scotswood, Manchester United and Southampton.

Claudia Rosett is an American writer and journalist. She is journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute based in Washington, D.C. A former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, she writes a weekly column for Forbes, blogs for Pajamas Media, and makes guest appearances on television and radio.

Rosett earned a B.A. in English at Yale University in 1976, an M.A. in English at Columbia University in 1979, and an MBA at the University of Chicago in 1981.

She joined The Wall Street Journal in 1984, becoming the editorial page editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal in 1986. In 1992 she moved to India and then on to Moscow in 1993, first as a reporter for the Journal, then as Moscow Bureau Chief, before taking leave in 1996. In 1997 she returned to New York where she served on the editorial board of the Journal until 2002. She wrote a regular column called "The Real World" for The Wall Street Journal Europe and OpinionJournal.com from July 2000 to December 2005.

Pam Allyn (born January 31, 1963) is an American literacy expert and author. She is the executive director of LitLife, a nationally-recognized organization specializing in transformative school improvement through literacy education, and the executive director of LitWorld, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to bringing quality education to the world’s most vulnerable children. Allyn is a motivational speaker for audiences of teachers, school administrators, librarians and parents.

Allyn founded LitLife in 2002. LitLife works with charter and public schools throughout the United States conducting teacher training, professional development, curriculum design and content review to improve the reading and writing programs. LitLife's main headquarters is in Westchester County, New York. There is also a LitLife West Hudson branch in New Jersey, a LitLife Connecticut branch, and a LitLife West branch in Arizona. LitLife's work is conducted through consultants working directly with teachers and school staff, through Pam Allyn and Team Leaders conducting seminars at select conferences and giving keynote talks at schools, and through the "Complete Year" series of books, published by Scholastic in 2008.

Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009. Blitzer previously hosted Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by The Situation Room.

The son of Jewish refugees from Poland, Wolf Blitzer was born in Augsburg, Germany and raised in Buffalo, New York. Blitzer graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University at Buffalo in 1970. While there, he was a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1972, he received a Master of Arts in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. While at Johns Hopkins, Blitzer studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew.

Blitzer has said that he has frequently been asked about his name, which has been characterized as seemingly "made-for-TV". In a Wayne's World Saturday Night Live sketch which was aired during the Persian Gulf War, Wayne and Garth picked Blitzer as having the "worst name" of any war correspondent, with Garth remarking, "It's so obvious the guy made it up for the war!" Blitzer explains that his surname goes back for generations, and his first name, 'Wolf', is the same first name as his maternal grandfather.