Rudi Bakhtiar Rudi Bakhtiar Rudabeh “Rudi” Bakhtiar is a producer for Reuters in Washington, D.C. She is likely best known for anchoring "CNN Headline News Tonight", a prime-time national three-hour news cast in the United States. In addition, she has anchored other high-profile newscasts for CNN including "Anderson Cooper 360". She has over a decade of experience working for international news outlets including CNN, Voice of America, and Reuters News. In 1996, Bakhtiar joined CNN and held multiple positions in her 9 years at the cable news network including anchoring "CNN Headline News Tonight" on the CNN Headline News network. She has
William Headline Navy prior to his career in journalism. He worked for Louis Harris and Associates in New York gathering polling information. CBS News in New York hired him to work on coverage of the 1964 presidential election. Headline was promoted to senior vice president and later moved to Washington in 1974 as the network's assistant bureau chief. In his years at CBS News, Headline supervised the network's coverage of political conventions, overseas presidential trips and papal visits, and was the network pool producer during President Richard Nixon's resignation. Headline was hired by CNN in 1983, and was appointed as the network's