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I'm Allison Beard and I'm on the phone today with renowned war correspondent and news anchor Christiane Amman Poor.

She's the subject of our May Life's Work interview.

Christiane, thanks so much for talking with us today. Thank you very much.

Now I know you worked your way up in journalism. Tell me how you got started.

You were an intern at a television station?

I actually had my first entry-level job at that local television station in Providence.

I'd got the internship there during my time in college and when I graduated they took a leap of faith and they actually hired me and I think they saw a young woman who was very serious about her career path, but not only that, what she wanted

to do with her life.

I was committed to journalism.

I wanted to be a foreign correspondent. I knew what I wanted to do and I

think that today with undergraduates, I think that's quite unusual because many many

undergraduates don't quite know what they want to do.

Most of them put off the final decision until after graduate school.

I did not go to graduate school, nor did I intend to go to graduate school, but I did know what I wanted to do.

And I think the ambition that I showed, the sense of mission that I internalized, and also

the willingness to do anything, go anywhere anywhere do any of the tasks they set me

nothing was too poultry and when they set me things that were even above my

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