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2 Boston Boys, John King & Kevin Cullen, Discuss Whitey Bulger

John King sat in for Anderson Cooper on Friday night and had a fascinating discussion with fellow Boston native Kevin Cullen, co-author of 'Whitey Bulger'. 

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This Weekend's Programming 6/15 - 6/16

SATURDAY, June 15, 2013

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM

The best of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer from the week of June 10.

Guest anchor:  Jim Acosta

SUNDAY, June 16, 2013

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON

Topics:   Intelligence Leaks; Syria

Guest:    Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chair, House Intelligence Committee

Topics:   Immigration; Syria; NSA Surveillance

Guest:    Sen. Bob Menendez, (D-NJ), chair, Foreign Relations Committee

Topics:   Politics

Guest:    Peter Baker, White House correspondent, The New York Times

Guest:    Nia Malika Henderson, national political reporter, The Washington Post

Guest:    A.B. Stoddard, columnist, The Hill

Guest:    Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, PBS “NewsHour”

Anchor:  Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM     

Topic:      NSA domestic surveillance and the fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations

Guest:     Gen. Michael Hayden, AF (ret.) former Director of the National Security Agency, CIA (George W. Bush Administration)

Topics:    Edward Snowden: hero, traitor … or, both?

Guest:     John Cassidy, business and social issues journalist, The New Yorker & Fortune magazines

Guest:     Jeffrey Toobin, chief legal analyst, CNN; author and journalist, The New Yorker magazine

Topic:      50th Anniversaries of JFK’s peace and ‘Ich Bin Ein Berliner’ speeches

Guest:     Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, author, To Move The World (2013); director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Topics:    The Turkish protests; the status of democracy in Egypt; preview of CNN Films’ Girl Rising

Guest:     Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American journalist and democracy activist

Guest:     Steven Cook, PhD, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Anchor:    Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11:00AM – NOON

Topic:   The Guardian’s Continued Reports on the NSA

Guest:  Glenn Greenwald, columnist and blogger, The Guardian

Topic:    Coverage of NSA Surveillance, Edward Snowden, State Department Scandal

Guest:   Paul Farhi, The Washington Post

Guest:   Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

Topic:  “New Day” Premieres Monday

Guest:  Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor, “New Day”

Topic:   John Oliver Takes Over “The Daily Show”

Guest:  James Poniewozik, columnist, TIME magazine

Host:    Howard Kurtz

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Congratulations to CNN on Edward R. Murrow Awards

2013 Edward R. Murrow CNN Award Winners 

To read the full list of categories and winners just follow the link.

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ROSA FLORES JOINS CNN

CNN has named Rosa Flores as correspondent it was announced today by Terence Burke, Vice President of Newsgathering for CNN/U.S.  She will start in July and will be based in New York City.  

Said Burke, “Rosa is an outstanding reporter who made her mark in local television covering numerous breaking news and enterprise stories.  We are thrilled to have her join the CNN team.”  

In addition to her role as correspondent Flores will serve as substitute anchor.

Throughout her career Flores covered a variety of national, state and local stories.  Before joining CNN, she anchored the late afternoon newscast at WBRZ, the ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge. Before moving to Louisiana’s capital city, Flores covered enterprise and breaking news stories at WDSU-TV, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Her reporting included extensive coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to that, she reported for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston and KWTV in Oklahoma City.  

“To be able to report for the premiere newsgathering operation in the world has been a dream ever since I covered my first story. I am honored and excited to be joining CNN and work with the best in our profession. I look forward to being able to tell stories on a national level. I can’t wait to get started,” said Flores.

Flores is the author of “Progreso,” a history book about her hometown on the Texas-Mexico border.  In 2012, RTDNA awarded her the Michele Clark Fellowship in memory of the CBS News correspondent who died tragically in a plane crash while on assignment.  Flores was also selected to participate in the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution and in the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental reporting oil spill seminars.  

Flores is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). She also helped found the organization’s Oklahoma City chapter.

Flores is dedicated to community service work, making dozens of appearances at schools and before professional groups.  She created a motivational series of talks for teenage girls and is currently writing a children’s book.    

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and another Bachelor’s in business administration and a Master’s in accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.  

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Don't Forget “Stroumboulopoulos” Airs Tonight

Acclaimed Talk-Show Host George Stroumboulopoulos Joins CNN with New Friday Night Program

Special Premiere of Weekly CNN Talk Show “Stroumboulopoulos” Airs Sunday, June 9^th; Series to Air Regularly Fridays at 11pmET Beginning June 14^th

CNN welcomes popular Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos to its Friday lineup. “Stroumboulopoulos” will premiere on Sunday, June 9^th at 10pm ET following the season finale of Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown.” On June 14^th the show will air in its regular timeslot; airing Fridays at 11pm ET. First guests will be rapper Wiz Khalifa, actress Ellen Page and Walking Dead comic book author Robert Kirkman.

The new talk show will explore the worlds of art, pop culture, politics, tech news and sports, through the eyes and the words of their most interesting figures. George Stroumboulopoulos is praised for being a masterful interviewer, whose intimate style keeps guests at ease and audiences intrigued.  “Stroumboulopoulos” is THE show to watch this summer.

“Stroumboulopoulos” will begin its 10 week run and will bring viewers compelling interviews with Keanu Reeves, Martin Short, Betty White, Bill Maher, Sharon Stone, as well as author Eckhardt Tolle, and filmmaker Werner Herzog among others slated to appear on the show.

Viewers can find updates, behind-the-scenes photos, and exclusive content from “Stroumboulopoulos” by following the show’s Twitter account @StromboCNN, George’s account @Strombo and online at CNN.com/Strombo.

The show is scheduled to re-air Fridays at 2 and 5am ET and on Saturdays at 11pm, 2am and 5am ET. “Stroumboulopoulos” is produced by CNN and Embassy Row, and will tape in front of a live studio audience in Los Angeles. Michael Davies and Michael Sugar serve as executive producers, with Kay O’Connell and Amanda McPhillips as co-executive producers. 

Stroumboulopoulos currently hosts George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, which airs nightly on CBC television, and The Strombo Show, music and talk program which airs weekly on CBC Radio2.  Among his guests were Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Bradley Cooper, Naomi Watts, Robert Pattinson, Bono, and Clint Eastwood.

Born and raised in Ontario, Stroumboulopoulos graduated from Humber College in 1993 with a diploma in radio broadcasting.  Stroumboulopoulos’ broadcasting career included talk and music radio production, television presenting, and hosting documentaries, and he has been honored eleven times by Canada’s prestigious Gemini Award for his television work.  He is also an outspoken advocate for numerous Canadian and international philanthropic humanitarian broadcasts, including Canada for Haiti and One Million Acts of Green, and he is the first Canadian National Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme.

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