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Hamdi: The BackStory
Team Kyra's launching a new weekly segment, in conjunction with our friends at CNN International. Every Friday, the anchor of CNNI's BackStory, Michael Holmes, will join Kyra with his pick of the...
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"Oh my gosh. I gave birth to a cow."
Today's BackStory segment was certainly a talker: The entire newsroom stopped to gawk. We got a mess o' tweets, the minute it ended. It's already made the blogs. If you saw it, then you know why. If...
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The Calf Chronicles: Goodbye, Norma Jean...
Her name is Norma Jean, and she had a pretty rough entry into the world. That much we knew. But there was so much more we WANTED to know about our new favorite bovine, so we wrangled some details from...
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BackStory: Iraqi Shoe-Thrower's Homecoming
A flock of sheep + ululating womenfolk + a hot & bothered Cal Perry = this week's BackStory - brought to you by Michael Holmes and Miz Betty Nguyen, sitting in for Kyra.
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Taking the Show on the Road... to Afghanistan
Getting a live news show on the air can be challenging, even under "normal" conditions. Going live from the hinterlands of Afghanistan - well, that's a whole 'nother story! CNN's Anderson Cooper did...
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It's Their Party: BackStory From Beijing
When our correspondents go out to do interviews and collect video elements for a piece, it can take hours and hours. All to produce a two- to three-minute package. In this week's BackStory segment, we...
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BackStory: An Afghanistan Embed
Friday's BackStory had us shipping out to Afghanistan, for a rough-n-tumble embed with correspondent Fred Pleitgen and camerawoman Claudia Otto. In the end, we had to blow out that second BackStory...
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Waiting To Embed
I know, I know: this BackStory segment is from Friday. Let's just say I posted it late on purpose, to tie into the whole "waiting" theme. (Yeah... that's the ticket!)
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