AmandaBurt.com Amanda Burt reporter and news reader
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Amanda Burt
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Excerpted from the website:
- As an accomplished reporter and news reader, Amanda has a professional on screen demeanour, and has broken a number of international news stories worldwide.
Amanda joined Press TV in March 2007 as their London Correspondent. She produces, writes, reports and edits her own work. Amanda reported extensively the 15 British marines captured in Iran , Gordon Brown's takeover, Britain 's floods and foot-and-mouth. In 2005, with final exams looming Amanda was quickly chosen as one of the launch presenters at the prestigious new 24hr global news channel Russia Today TV (RTTV), based in Moscow . A channel designed to show the world Russia 's growing role internationally. There Amanda broke many significant news stories including the Litvinenko poisoning story, the Middle East crisis, the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the cartoon protests, the roof collapse in Moscow 's Basmanny market, the Irkutsk plane disaster and the G8 summit in St. Petersburg . She interviewed guests such as South Ossetia 's President, Abkhazia's President, Andrey Lugovoy, a key witness in the Litvinenko case, and correspondents.
