Christina Park to be a doctor when she chose her true calling—journalism. She joined CNN in 1999 as a medical and health producer for CNN Headline News. She has also reported for Headline News as well as for CNN, CNN International and has served as an anchor for CNN Student News. During her tenure at CNN, Park helped launch a number of programs, including "CNN.COM," for which she received a National Headliner Award. She also launched a profile-style program, "People in the News." In August 2001, she moved to Headline News as a writer for the launch of the revamped network. Park
History of CNN (1980–2003) Checkout Channel, a customized channel made available to grocery stores which shut down in 1993. 1996 saw the debuts of two specialty news channels: CNNSI, a sports news channel created in partnership with co-owned magazine "Sports Illustrated", and CNNfn, a business news channel created as a competitor to CNBC (CNNSI shut down in 2002, while CNNfn shut down in December 2004; CNN continues to maintain a partnership with "Sports Illustrated" through CNNSI.com). CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially an experiment known as "CNN Interactive"), on August 30, 1995, which grew to become one of the most popular news websites in