Arwa Damon - CNN

[fadedrose]

I finally got her last name - she's the CNN reporter in Syria, Turkey, Hungary, Austria, everywhere and anywhere - near battle lines, leading children, keeping refugees and their children company as well as reporting on the situations, reporting on progress against ISIS, etc...

She looks like a small (but not frail) woman, pretty face, no makeup, left her good clothes at home, apparently. She is outstanding and I grow more fond of her with every report - which are sometimes hard to hear because she doesn't get any private place to report, just in the middle of a bunch of people all the time, and they pay scarcely any attention to her...

She shows pity, disgust, sadness, and a bit of outrage with the poor treatment people there are getting, and I get tears in my eyes almost every time she does a report.

She should get an award of some kind of award. She's pretty young, maybe be our next Secretary of State if she's American or something...

[DavidDvorkin]

1. I'd rather have someone with solid government experience as SoS

Preferably including diplomatic experience.

[fadedrose]

2. I was just kidding about the SOS

She does deserve a journalist award... And she does have diplomatic skills with being able to talk to people and officials in so many countries...

So many of the places where she's reported are very dangerous, bombs falling etc... ISIS not far away...

Are you at all familiar with her?

[DavidDvorkin]

5. No

I don't watch CNN.

[fadedrose]

6. Too bad

this girl is amazing, I think...

[Fred Sanders]

3. You have to go overseas to find real journalists and reporters at CNN. Damon is well known and

respected outside Media Fortress America.

[csziggy]

4. She's already gotten a number of awards

Damon won an Investigative Reporters and Editors' IRE Award for her reporting of the Consulate attack in Benghazi, along with fellow photojournalist Sarmad Qaseera.[6][7]

Damon was part of the CNN team who won the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form (Revolution in Egypt: President Mubarak Steps Down).[8][9] In 2014, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award given by the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwa_Damon#Awards

And if you look at the beginning of the Wikipedia article she's had a pretty exceptional life.

[fadedrose]

7. She deserved every award

although I didn't pay much attention to her until they were trying to get part of Iraq back - and she complains when more air power is needed, etc. She's right up front where a stray bullet can get her very easily..

She's very young to have had an "exceptional life," as you put it.

And here I thought I was the only one who noticed and admired her...

All of you surprise me with your knowledge of her.