The Leaderboard by Amy Alcott & Don Wade

The Leaderboard by Amy Alcott & Don Wade

Author:Amy Alcott & Don Wade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-07-15T00:00:00+00:00


KYRA PHILLIPS

MY FRIEND KYRA PHILLIPS anchors the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom, but she’s every bit as comfortable outside the studio as behind the anchor desk. She has covered an amazing variety of events, including the Atlanta courthouse shooting, Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans in 2005, and the Iraq war, and she participated in CNN’s 2000 and 2002 election coverage. Kyra also covered the September 11 terrorist attacks. In January 2002, she spent a month on location in Antarctica, working on a documentary, and that same year she became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.

My kind of girl!

I first met Kyra when she was working as an investigative reporter in the Special Assignment Unit for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. Over the years she’s won four Emmy Awards and two Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting, and the Associated Press named her Reporter of the Year in 1997.

If that weren’t enough, she’s actively involved in charities like the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America mentoring program and is on the board of the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children. Each year she hosts a tournament at Chateau Elan Golf Club near Atlanta to raise money for research into brain tumors, which caused the death of her grandfather.

We began our conversation by talking about her grandfather.



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