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Armie Jarin-Bennett is a Filipina journalist based in Manila, Philippines. She is the current President of
Nine Media Corporation Nine Media Corporation (NMC, formerly known as Solar Television Network, Inc. or STVNI) is a Media in the Philippines, Philippine-based media company. Formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation (SEC), a multimedia t ...
, owner of
CNN Philippines CNN Philippines (abbreviated sometimes as CNN PH) was a Philippine free-to-air television network owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN), under a license from Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pa ...
(now RPTV), the country's very own local franchise of Cable News Network, since October 9, 2016. She is also the Executive Vice President for News and Current Affairs and Managing Director of the network since November 4, 2015, replacing Jing Magsaysay who resigned in September 2015. Before going back home to work for CNN Philippines, she worked for CNN for 17 years.


Background

She did a BA in Mass Communications at
De La Salle University De La Salle University (), also referred to as DLSU, De La Salle or La Salle, is a private, Catholic coeducational research university run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools with main campus in Taft Avenue, Malate, Man ...
between 1984-1988, and started her media career as a news writer and top-of-the-hour radio newscaster of stations 99.5 RT (now 99.5 Play FM), Kiss FM 101.1 (now 101.1 Yes The Best) and Citylite 88.3 (now Jam 88.3) (the first radio affiliate of CNN in the country), under Francis Lumen, from 1989 to 1996, at the same time, she did voice-over for radio commercials. She unsuccessfully auditioned to succeed
Tina Monzon-Palma María Cristina "Tina" Mapa Monzón-Palma (; born March 29, 1951) is a Filipina broadcast journalist and anchorwoman. She is best known as a late night news presenter in various Philippine television news programs in different television ne ...
as anchor of GMA Headline News. She moved to Atlanta to work as an intern of CNN Radio, doing multi-tasking as floor director, teleprompter operator, and video journalist in 1996. She was hired by CNN Headline News as a producer and writer in 1997, then moved to CNN International in 2000, started as a news producer, and rose through the ranks into supervising producer in 2004 and executive producer in 2008, overseeing the 24/7 daily news operations of the news network. She was appointed by the network as the Executive Director for Content Sales & Partnerships based in
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
, supervising the work of all CNN local affiliates in the Asia Pacific, including CNN Philippines. In 2012, she was awarded for the Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Format by the Emmy Awards for the coverage of the Egypt Revolution. In the following year, she was Emmy nominated again for coverage of
Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that is among List of the most intense tropical cyclones, the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. Upon ...
. She resigned from her CNN position in 2020 for unknown reasons.


Personal

She is married to
Headline News HLN is an American basic cable network. Owned by CNN Worldwide, the network primarily carries true-crime programming, recently drifting away from limited live news programming. The channel was originally launched on January 1, 1982, by Tur ...
director, John Bennett.


See also

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CNN Philippines CNN Philippines (abbreviated sometimes as CNN PH) was a Philippine free-to-air television network owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN), under a license from Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pa ...


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Armie Jarin-Bennett on Twitter
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