Wednesday, September 07, 2005
CNN Correspondent's Contract Not Renewed
A tipster tells WHAC CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers' contract has not been renewed. Rodgers joined CNN in September 1993. He had worked as correspondent in Jerusalem and correspondent in CNN's Berlin bureau.He joined CNN after 12 years with ABC News where he appeared regularly on ABC's World News Tonight. He has covered wars and seen combat in Lebanon in the 1980s, the Soviet War in Afghanistan and strife in Sarajevo, Kosovo, South Lebanon and the West Bank.
Rodgers joined ABC News in 1981, where he was a London-based correspondent until 1983.
From 1984-1989, Rodgers worked as ABC News' Moscow bureau chief and correspondent. While in Moscow, he covered a wide range of stories originating from the Soviet Union, including the first four years of Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika programs; the deaths of former Soviet presidents Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, the downing of Korean Airlines flight KAL 007, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the U.S. Embassy security and spy scandal.
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