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News Hottie of the Week: Abbi Tatton

jWiltshire — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:42:20 +0000

I could have sworn I did this post before, but apparently not. Abbi Tatton reports on the internet for CNN’s Situation Room. She’s the lady who tells Wolf Blitzer what’s happening on blogs and Twitter, which is generally unimportant, but what ever you have to do to pander to viewers I guess? Anyway, as one of the first Internet reporters in television news, Ms. Tatton has explored Internet angles to stories including the war in Iraq, the London subway bombings and the 2006 midterm elections. She has also covered the emergence of blogs and the internet and their relationship to political elections and campaigning. She attended the University of Leeds and received her M.A. from American University. There was also, briefly, a blog devoted to her, I Luv Abbi Tatton.

News Hottie of the Whatever: Betty Nguyen

jWiltshire — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:00:42 +0000

Bringing it back! Betty Nguyen is a news anchor on CNN Saturday Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, and is a regular correspondent and contributor for many of CNN’s other programs. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1974, leaving for the USA seven months later. She grew up in Fort Worth Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin. She intended to become an attorney but instead graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. Before joining CNN in 2004 she anchored at KTVT, a CBS affiliate in Dallas. In 2003 she won a regional Emmy award and was named a Great Women of Texas Honoree. She also portrayed a newscaster on Walker, Texas Ranger. In 2007 the Smithsonian Institute recognized Nguyen as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national news broadcast in the USA, and 2007 she was named one of “TV’s 10 Hottest News Anchors by Maxim” magazine. She also once met friend of jwiltshire.org meatypuffs, something even I haven’t done.

French News Hottie of the Week: Melissa Theuriau

jWiltshire — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:14:51 +0000

Today’s News Hottie of the Week comes to us courtesy of France’s MÃ©tropole 6 television network. Melissa Theuriau received her news journalism degree from the technical institute at Pierre MendÃ¨s-France University. She went on from there working for various news programs before settling down at M6 in 2006 as editor-in-chief and presenter of Zone interdite, a weekly magazine show featuring investigative reporting. She also presents Un jour, une Photo and Deux, trois jours avec moi.

In March of last year, she started an organization with five other (also attractive) French female journalists which works with UNICEF to improve girls’ education around the world.

In 2006, the Daily Express voted her the world’s most beautiful news reporter. She was similarly voted “TV’s sexiest news anchor” by readers of the US edition of Maxim. In May 2007, she was voted most beautiful woman in the world in the French edition of FHM. Paris Match has referred to her as la bombe cathodique (“the television bombshell”). So she’s clearly credentialed. Also: There are published photos of her topless at a beach. And I’ve seen them.
As a special NHotW bonus, here’s a video of just her, looking good and speaking French:

News Hottie of the Week: Anjali Rao

jWiltshire — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:18:18 +0000

Anjali Rao co-anchors CNNâ€™s prime-time evening news and business show, ‘World News Asia’, live from CNNâ€™s regional production center in Hong Kong. She also hosts ‘Talk Asia’, the half-hour regional chat show, that features revealing, in-depth interviews and topical discussion with leading business, political and entertainment figures.

Rao has been an anchor/correspondent for CNN since joining the network in January 2006. In her career to date, Rao has covered a broad portfolio of major news stories including the attacks of 9/11, the Asian tsunami, the aftermath of the Bali bombings, the war in Iraq and the South Asian earthquake. Prior to joining CNN, Rao worked for a decade at broadcasters in Australia, Asia and Europe. She started her career as a producer and reporter in Hong Kong, where she was born. She was educated mainly in the UK where she received a bachelorâ€™s degree with honors in Sociology and Media Studies from Londonâ€™s City University.

News Hottie of the Week: Stephanie Elam

jWiltshire — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:13:04 +0000

Stephanie Elam is a CNN business news correspondent. Her reports can be seen on Headline News and CNN International. Previously, Elam was the co-host of Black Enterprise Report, a program focused on business, career and financial education. Elam began her career in financial news as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York City. Next, she joined Bridge News, an international news service. In 2000, she traveled to London and Mumbai, India, to help establish overnight coverage.

Soon after joining Bridge, Elam began her shift to broadcast news by covering corporate earnings for Nightly Business Report, PBS’s business news program. She also joined a select group of Bridge journalists reporting regularly on WebFN, a streaming financial news site. Eventually, WebFN hired Elam, making her the site’s only full-time reporter in New York. Elam began reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, covering the markets’ closely watched daily activity and interviewing the NYSE’s wide range of visitors from chief executives and politicians to music moguls and Olympians.

Elam graduated cum laude from Howard University with a bachelorâ€™s degree in broadcast journalism.