Rosemary Church is an anchor for CNN International's rolling newscast 'Your World Today.' Based at the network's headquarters in Atlanta, Church has been with CNNI since 1998.
In this role, she has anchored major world events such as the September 11th terrorist attacks against the United States; the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and most recently, the war on Iraq. She also has anchored during the NATO air strikes over Yugoslavia; the fall of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic; the Palestinian militant ceasefire and Israeli troop withdrawal from northern Gaza and during East Timor's struggle for independence.
Church has interviewed world leaders and decision makers including a CNN exclusive with Liberian President Charles Taylor and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Senior Advisor Ra'anan Gissin and Yasser Arafat's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh just minutes after news of a temporary ceasefire with Palestinian militant groups. Other notable interviews include Australia's Prime Minister John Howard; former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and the Tibetan Spiritual Leader, the Dalai Lama in the days that followed September 11, 2001.
She was the first to speak with Rev. Jesse Jackson after he negotiated the release of three U.S. POW's in a meeting with former Yugoslav Leader Slobadan Milosovic in 1999. In 2000, she talked the audience through the first live pictures of the seizure by U.S. authorities of six year old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzales and got the first live interview with balloonist record breaker Steve Fossett in 2002.
Church has also conducted workshops for CNN affiliates in Taiwan.
Prior to joining CNN, Church was Senior Anchor for five years with Australia's first international satellite news service, Australia Television (ATV), also filing stories for ATV and the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program when travelling in Asia.
She started at ABC TV in 1991 as a reporter and anchor for the main evening news in Tasmania, where she also anchored the summer edition of ABC's World at Noon program.
Church spent five years in Parliament House, Canberra, with the National Media Liaison Service, while anchoring weekends on Channel ten's news service. In 1984, she was a media officer and speechwriter for a member of Federal Parliament.
Church won the New York Festival's TV programming award for coverage of the Hong Kong Handover to China in 1997 (Silver).
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Church has lived in England and various parts of Australia. She has a bachelor of arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in media and law.
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