The Christiane Amanpour Lecture is endowed by and named for the 1983 URI alumna and 1995 honorary degree recipient. She is chief international anchor for CNN and host of its award-winning, flagship global affairs program Amanpour, as well as Amanpour & Co. which airs on PBS in the United States.
Launched in 2008, the speaker series brings well-respected journalists to campus each year.
Previous lectures and videos
Former TIME editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs gives annual Amanpour lecture - 
Our Information Emergency featuring Nancy Gibbs - October 10 at 5 pm in-person at Beaupre Room 105 and streaming live on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Youtube.
Reporting from the Front Lines Featuring Mstyslav Chernov - 2023 Christiane Amanpour Lecture featuring: Mstyslav Chernov October 20 at 7:00 PM ET in Edwards Auditorium [watch the video]
“Humanity in War Reporting: Bringing Authentic, Individual Experiences of War into Conflict Journalism” - 2022 Amanpour Lecture featuring award-winning international correspondent, Jane Ferguson
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:00pm [watch the video]
Honesty and Authenticity in Political Journalism - 2021 Amanpour Lecture featuring Abby Phillip, CNN Anchor and Senior Political Correspondent
Wednesday, November 10, 5:00-6:15pm [watch the video]- COVID-19: Science reporting in a global pandemic - 2020 Amanpour Lecture Series featuring Ed Yong, a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic.
October 29, 5:00pm [watch the video] - Truthful, Not Neutral - 2019 Amanpour Lecture featuring Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor for CNN
September 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m. [watch the video] - Carole Radziwill on journalism, writing, and television - 2018 Amanpour Lecture featuring journalist and best-selling author, Carole Radziwill
October 24, 2018, 7 p.m. - Transparency in News Reporting - 2017 Amanpour Lecture featuring Stephen Adler, President and Executive Editor, Thomson Reuters
October 4, 2017
| year | speaker |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Mark Scialla and Reshad Kulenovic, URI alums and freelance journalists and filmmakers |
| 2015 | H.D.S. Greenway, foreign correspondent, Boston Globe and Time Magazine |
| 2014 | Omar Bah, Gambian journalist |
| 2013 | Charles Sennott, founder Global Post and The Groundtruth Project |
| 2012 | David Goldman, freelance photographer Boston Globe, New York Times, Associated Press among others |
| 2011 | C.J. Chivers, New York Times |
| 2010 | William Kole, Associated Press bureau chief |
| 2009 | Elizbeth Rubin, freelance journalist covering Afghanistan and other countries for The New York Times and the New Yorker |
| 2008 | Jimmie Briggs, freelance journalist, author, “Innocence Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War” |