Gracie Allen Award Winners

Congratulations to Jessica Yellin for her Gracie Award win. According to TV Newser Yellin won for Outstanding Hard News Feature. Other CNN winners include CNN Presents "Black In America" for Outstanding Documentary and Larry King Live for Outstanding Talk Show - News for their interview with Katherine Callaway Hall. A gala for the awards will be held in LA on May 25.

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CNN Heads to Chile

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday morning. CNN has mobilized teams to head to South America and bring us the latest news. Here's the rundown:

CNN/U.S.
Karl Penhaul, correspondent
John Zarella, Miami correspondent
Soledad O'Brien, anchor and special correspondent
Ted Rowlands, general assignment correspondent
Ed Lavandera, correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen, sr. medical correspondent
Gary Tuchman, correspondent

CNN International
Sara Sidner, international correspondent
Hala Gorani, CNNI anchor and reporter

CNN en Espanol
Daniel Viotto, anchor

CNN Chile is Chile's leading 24-hour news network. A joint-venture between CNN and Liberty Global's VTR, CNN Chile launched in December 2008. In addition to a fully staffed local news production center based in Santiago, CNN Chile has complete access to CNN Worldwide’s newsgathering resources including the support of 4,000 journalists based around the globe.




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Ratings For The Week of February 15th

Rating calculations are weekly averages based on nightly ratings provided by TVNewser with data by Nielsen Media Research. Numbers reflect Live and same day (DVR) data.

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Wolf Blitzer Honored

DiGamma Kappa, a professional broadcasting society for students, has tapped the CNN broadcaster for this year's Distinguished Achievement Award in Broadcasting. Previous winners include Ed Bradley, Bob Costas, Linda Ellerbee and Barbara Walters. Blitzer will receive his award and speak briefly to students and professionals March 15 at a banquet at Hilton Garden Inn.
"It is an honor to join the impressive list of journalists who have received the DiGamma Kappa award," Blitzer said in an e-mail. "The best part of my job anchoring 'The Situation Room' at CNN is learning something new every day - and I look forward to visiting a campus that is renowned for teaching, inspiring and creating the next generation of broadcasters."
Blitzer has won honors that include the Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for excellence in military reporting, an Emmy for his coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing and the American Journalism Review's "Best in the Business" award. He also has shared in winning a Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.



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What's Happening......

Former Fox Business anchor Alexis Glick of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell, as well as the channel's former Vice President of Business News may just be headed to CNN. She's rumored to be the replacement for Gerri Willis, watch for an announcement soon.*




Jeffrey Toobin was in court last Wednesday, this time it was Manhattan Family Court, where he and Casey Greenfield, daughter of former CNN'er Jeff Greenfield, tried to reach an agreement over child support. Greenfield alleges that Toobin is the father of her son born last year. We first brought this story to your attention here at ATC almost a year ago, and it's sad that there still seems to be no resolution for the child's sake. *



We knew that Ed Henry was taking some well deserved R & R this week in Nevada and now we hear congratulations are in order. Henry popped the question to CNN weekend producer Shirley Hung while on a romantic snowmobile ride at Lake Tahoe on Sunday. The newly engaged couple took in Don Rickles Saturday's show at The Orleans in Las Vegas where Rickles cracked "He (Henry) gets better seats at an Obama news conference than at my show''. Last night the happy couple were spotted in a booth at the Imperial Palace in Vegas. *

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Gerri Willis To Leave CNN

According to TVNewser Gerri Willis is leaving CNN. Her last day will be Friday. Here's the article from TVNewser:

First on TVNewser: Gerri Willis, personal finance editor for CNN Business News, is departing CNN after seven years at the network, TVNewser has learned. CNN tells us, "Gerri is leaving to explore other opportunities. After 7 years at CNN, she felt it was time for a change. We wish her all the best."

Willis has appeared on a variety of programs across the CNN, CNNI, and HLN family, including CNN's "American Morning," since she began with the network in March of 2003, when she came over from her post atSmart Money magazine.

In January of 2009, she began anchoring her own weekend program on CNN titled, "Your Bottom Line."

Her last day will be next Friday.

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New Fareed Zakaria Article In The Washington Post

The Washington Post has added a new article by Fareed Zakaria titled "Why Iran's Dictators Can Be Deterred.". Here's an excerpt. Click here for the full article.

Sarah Palin has a suggestion for how Barack Obama can save his presidency. "Say he decided to declare war on Iran," she said on Fox News this month. "I think people would perhaps shift their thinking a little bit and decide, well, maybe he's tougher than we think he is today." Such talk is in the air again. Palin was picking up the idea from Daniel Pipes, a neoconservative Middle East expert who suggested a strike would reverse Obama's political fortunes. (Actually, Palin attributed the idea to Patrick Buchanan, but she obviously entirely misreadBuchanan's column, which opposed Pipes's suggestion. It's getting tiresome to keep pointing out her serial gaffes, but Palin does appear to be running for president.)

The International Atomic Energy Agency warned last week of its "concerns" that the Iranian regime was moving to acquire a nuclear-weapons capability, not just nuclear energy. But this does not change the powerful calculus against a military strike, which would most likely delay the Iranian program by only a few years. And then there are the political consequences. The regime would gain support as ordinary Iranians rally around the flag. The opposition would be forced to support a government under attack from abroad. The regime would foment and fund violence from Afghanistan to Iraq and across the Persian Gulf. The price of oil would skyrocket -- which, ironically, would help Tehran pay for all these operations.

It is important to recognize the magnitude of what people like Palin are advocating. The United States is being asked to launch a military invasion of a state that poses no imminent threat to America, without sanction from any international body and with few governments willing to publicly endorse such an action. Al-Qaeda and its ilk would present it as the third American invasion of a Muslim nation in a decade, proof positive that the United States is engaged in a war of civilizations. Moderate Arab states and Muslim governments everywhere would be on the defensive. And as Washington has surely come to realize, wars unleash forces that cannot be predicted or controlled.

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