Jonathan Mann (journalist)

Jonathan Mann (born 16 July 1960 Montreal ) is a Canadian journalist. Man is best known as a correspondent and presenter at the service of American news channel CNN. Currently belong to man for CNN hosted the show man and Political Correspondent for other program on the main companions of the U.S. presidential election campaign in 2008.

Life and work

As a child, husband visited the Jewish People's School in Montreal, where he learned Hebrew and Yiddish. Since he spent his youth in the French speaking part of Canada, he speaks also fluent in French. After graduation man began studying philosophy at York University in Toronto, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree.

He first gained prominence when he reported in 1984 as a freelance journalist from India about the consequences of the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Man made ​​headlines when he defied a travel ban, Government of India, the foreigners entering the province of Punjab forbade to report from there. Because of this transgression man was eventually arrested by the Indian police and interned in Armitsar. After numerous international media had reported about the case and the Canadian government intervened in his favor with the Indian government, man was released after a week of detention. In the following years he worked as a reporter for radio stations like CBC Radio and NBC radio and newspapers for the United Press International and Montreal Gazette.

In the 1980s, the first man was Paris correspondent for the U.S. news channel CNN. From the French capital, he reported not only on political events such as elections, but also on Social, French food and culture. Among the most famous events of which man reported around the world in the course of its further correspondent career include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the apartheid regime, the release from prison of the South African politician Nelson Mandela and the rise of Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Since the late 1990s, man is the host of alldezemberlichen show, The Prize for Peace, in which he meets in Oslo with the respective winners of the Nobel Peace Prize and these interviews live on CNN. Later, he was brought into the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, where he leads by changing broadcasting formats for several years.

Currently, occurs every man Friday on as a moderator of humorous colored political broadcast Political man. In the half-hour broadcast every Friday on CNN International, speaks to current policy issues, but presents very humoristiert. In August and September 2008, he also reported as a correspondent of the party days of the Democrats and Republicans during the U.S. presidential election campaign.

  • TV presenter (Canada)
  • Journalist (Canada)
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
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