Amanda Bennett Biography
Amanda Bennett is an American journalist and author best known for her editorial work on The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lexington Herald-Leader and author of six nonfiction books.
Amanda Bennett Age
Bennett was born on July 9, 1952, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. She will celebrate her 67th birthday on July 9, 2019
Amanda Bennett Family | Amanda Bennett Husband
She has been married thrice. She first married Philip Morrow Oxley. The couple married on December 31, 1976, and divorced on January 15, 1983. Her second marriage was to the late Terence B. Foley who she married in 9, April 1940 till his death in 2008. She is now married to Donald E. Graham, the majority owner and chairman of Graham Holdings Company. The couple married on May 23, 1987. She has two children with her late husband, Terence Foley, and four step-children with her husband, Donald E. Graham, whom she married.
Amanda Bennett Education
She studied and graduated at Boonton High School, graduating with the class of 1971. She joined Harvard College in 1975, where she was an editor on the Harvard Crimson and graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature.
Amanda Bennett VOA
She was named the 29th director of The Voice of America in 2016.
Amanda Bennett Ballet
She is the director of Ballet School Theater Basel which is located in Switzerland since 2001. She is said to have a great deal of dedication, decisiveness and endurance and which has transformed the school into an internationally renowned training center. Her ultimate goal is to Develop the school into the highest level of professional school in Europe. She studied at the School of American Ballet, the school of George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet and in 1976, she signed her first contract as a dancer with the Grand Theatre de Genève.
Amanda Bennett Net Worth
She must be earning a good salary of over a million dollars a year. Her net worth is not disclosed.
Amanda Bennett Journalism
She debuted in journalism at the Harvard Crimson, as an editor. She worked briefly as a bilingual (French-English) reporter on the Ottawa Citizen in Ottawa, Ontario. She worked with The Wall Street Journal for 23 years, which included reporting stints in Detroit, Toronto, Washington, D.C. and three years as bureau chief in Atlanta. She became the second Wall Street Journal correspondent in China in 1983.
She left the Journal to become a managing editor at The Oregonian in 1998, a regional newspaper which was owned by the Newhouse chain and headed by Sandra Mims Rowe, the pioneering journalist. She headed the creation of investigative projects at the Oregonian including a year-long investigation of the $1 billion local asset manager, Capital Consultants, that led to the September 2000, suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission against the firm and its principal Jeffrey Grayson and an investigation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that won the paper the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
She became editor of The Lexington Herald-Leader in September 2001, a Knight Ridder paper. After almost two years, she was appointed by Knight Ridder as the first female editor in the 174-year history of their flagship paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer on June 2, 2003. She stepped down as the Inquirer’s editor in November 2006.
She becomes an executive editor at Bloomberg News in November 2006, where she created and ran a global team of investigative reporters and editors. She was also a co-founder, of Bloomberg News’ Women’s project together with journalist Lisa Kassenaar. The Bloomberg journalists team for the first time tallied the personal assets of family members of a senior Chinese leader – vice president Xi Jinping under her direction, this resulted in Bloomberg’s business in China is significantly disrupted. In November 2013, she resigned from Bloomberg News.
She has also been a freelance journalist and public speaker and has spoken at TED on journalism and end-of-life care.
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Amanda Bennett Awards
She shared the Prize for national reporting with her Wall Street Journal colleagues. She was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2001 and Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for “End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It in 2011
Amanda Bennett should be removed from VOA immediately, says Steven Bannon
On February 6 in New York, when asked by Sara whether the US Department of Justice would charge and prosecute those American individuals in collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in their propaganda, such as Amanda Bennett of the Voice of America, former White House strategist Mr. Steven Bannon gave the following remarks:
I want to go back, in particular the people who are fighting for freedom in mainland China and the heroes like Mr. Lude and Sara here that are fighting for you here in the United States, we have to see, one of the most significant things is that Higginbotham is the first time in American history that a senior official in the Justice Department has been basically caught as a traitor to his country for money, right? This is at least 70 million dollars Higginbotham has pledged guilty to.
The question is going to be, and I think this talks about one of the problems here in the United States. The Higginbotham case, if Higginbotham was working for the Russians, ok? and if somehow associated with Trump, literally TV would be 24 hours a day, they would not go up off the air. That’s all they would be reporting: NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, it would be 24 hours a day. If it’s Russia, that’s all you would hear. They haven’t got anything on these Russian investigations on Trump. Higginbotham took 70 million dollars of money stolen from the poor people in Malaysia, to pay a senior US official, part of it to get, guess what, Miles Kwok extradited back to China.
Listen, here are the things about Miles Kwok. For all the people there online, if everything he says is a lie, if everything he says is made up, if everything he says is bullshit, then why is it every time you turned around another senior person trying to get Miles Kwok out of the United States and back to China, including Higginbotham at the Justice Department who they paid 70 million dollars to. He’s already pleaded guilty; he’s going to prison.
So the question gets to be, and I want to bring this up very specifically, and I am going to name names, and I am sorry I am going to hurt some feelings.
But the other night we had a 7-8 hours’ broadcast here put on by Guo.media, totally one of the most professional things we have ever seen here with the background that is better than Fox News, better than CNN, better than CBC; all these guys have spent millions of dollars. Guo.media has the best set-up, right? 7 hours of talking about corruption, the potential assassination of the Dalai Lama, trading out the dictator in Korea, the CCP getting out his bank account, one level of corruption after another, about Hong Kong, all of it. Not one word from the VOA, Voice of America Mandarin Service.
The American taxpayers, the little guys in America, pay hard-earned money for VOA Mandarin Service to be able to preach the truth and the facts to the Chinese people. Here we have Guo.media, patriot Chinese, and people like Sara and Mr. Lude, whose lives are in danger, and the producer, our tremendous interpreter, also putting their lives in danger; but the Voice of America, the American taxpayers pay them, to tell the truth to the world about China -nothing! We do the entire press conference for hours of the 500 people in China, either missing, or made disappeared, or murdered, the Voice of America said NOTHING!
Amanda Bennett, the woman director of VOA who fired Sasha Gong who tried to clear up all the truth and tell us in VOA Mandarin Service. I gave her one hour interview to the VOA Mandarin Service for its 40th Anniversary; based around Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the United States, a one-hour interview for the 40th anniversary at my home in Capital Hill, and here’s how much they showed-ZERO! You know why? They said Mr. Bannon had too much hard talking about Wang Qishan, Liu He, and President Xi, and the radical cadrys of CCP.
The Voice of America, Amanda Bennett, the American executives, including Chinese Americans to run it, are cowards. They have betrayed the American people; they have betrayed the Chinese people; they have betrayed the great legacy of the Voice of America and radio free rule by their cowering to the radical cadrys in the CCP.
Now I think Amanda Bennett should be removed immediately as head of VOA for the Mandarin Service. I think there shall be a complete and thorough investigation into Amanda Bennett and her husband, to see what tie they have with China and with the CCP for their business activities over there. Amanda Bennett has gone out of her way; she pulled the plug on Miles Kwok’s live interview; and why she pulled off the plug because Miles Kwok was talking about Wang Qishan and Wang Qishan’s stealing of the ownership of HNA from the people of China, the people of Hainan.
Miles was saying when the plug was pulled, that now HNA is owned by two trusts set up in this very city -New York, with young men who had an association with Wang Qishan, not the people of Hainan. The plug was pulled. And she was the one who gave the order. She then ordered the firing of Sasha Gong; Sasha Gong is known as one of the best reporters about what’s happening in mainland China. Sasha Gong continued reporting about the suppression of the Chinese people. She was fired.
And I had a one-hour interview with VOA Mandarin Service. I sat for very few interviews with mainstream media, but I did it with VOA one hour. Every interview I have sat for has been played in its entirety except the VOA Mandarin Service interview for the 40th-anniversary show for one hour. And here’s how much they showed-None! And I called up to ask where is the interview, and they said: “You were too much hard talking about CCP, the corruption of CCP, radical cadrys of the CCP, the enslaving of the Chinese people, the oppression of the Chinese people”. I said I thought that was the whole reason for the Voice of America was set up as a service to preach freedom to the people. Not one second! Ok?
Amanda Bennett should be immediately terminated and a full and deep investigation by American legal authorities should be into the corruption of the senior leadership of the Voice of America. I think what you are going to find is some sort of collaborated nature between the senior leadership of VOA and radical cadrys of the CCP.