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 effect had donated $500 per person affected by the tsunami, compared to just 50 cents for each person affected by Uganda’s 18-year war." CNN effect The CNN effect is a phenomenon in political science and media studies which states that CNN's use of shocking images of humanitarian crises around the world compels U.S. policy makers to intervene in humanitarian situations they may not otherwise have an interest in. The 24-hour international television news channel known as Cable News Network or CNN, had a major impact on the conduct of states' foreign policy in the late Cold War period and that CNN