Christiane Amanpour to Host ABC’s This Week

BURBANK: CNN’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, is heading to ABC to host the Sunday morning public affairs program This Week.

Amanpour will join ABC in August, and until then, Jake Tapper, ABC’s White House correspondent, will be the host. CNN introduced a daily show on CNN International with Amanpour as host just six months ago. She will wrap her daily show at the end of April. Her career at CNN spans two decades.

“Her work burnished our news brand and gave it authority,” Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide, said in an e-mail message to staff members. “In turn, the CNN imprimatur opened doors for her around the world and provided a global platform for the intelligent, courageous, principled reporting that is her signature. CNN and Christiane helped make each other great.”

“With Christiane we have the opportunity to provide our audiences with something different on Sunday mornings,” David Westin, the president of ABC News, wrote in an e-mail message to staff members. “We will continue to provide the best in interviews and analysis about domestic politics and policies. But now we will add to that an international perspective.”