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
CNN International news website CNN.com (initially an experiment known as "CNN Interactive") on August 30, 1995. The site attracted growing interest over its first decade and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, social media and user-generated content have influenced the site, and blogs in particular have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of CNN Pipeline in late 2005. In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news sites in unique users in the U.S. according to Nielsen/NetRatings; with an increase of 11%