Searching for America
In my search for the real America - that elusive soul of the U.S.A. - I’ve come to realize, via miles traveled and steps walked, that the sheer size of this country makes it almost impossible to pin down a single description of America or its inhabitants.
The landmass is so huge and geographically and culturally diverse that I’ve barely visited a fraction of the places I want to see in the decade I’ve called Atlanta, Georgia, my home.
As an outsider, with a global perspective, I am not weighed down by the baggage of family history, politics or a sense of place.
That’s why I started this podcast. I want to understand the the political choices Americans are making, and why.
Good conversation, listening and understanding another person’s point of view (without necessarily agreeing) is the key to reinforcing the political centre.
Now that President Donald Trump has won a second term, with a massive and decisive victory, I’m excited to bring my outsider perspective to viewing his Presidency.
Can he bring the country together? How much division will be healed or created by his agenda? What are the geopolitical implications of a Trump 2.0 Presidency?
Here in the South, and I know across the country, there are millions of good Americans who want the best for this country, I am looking forward to charting the twists and turns by talking to friends, colleagues and neighbors.
These are complicated times, and this is a large country, and the only way I know how to make sense of it all is by talking and listening to as many people as possible.
~Robyn
An outsider’s view from inside the USA
with award-winning foreign correspondent and anchor Robyn Curnow
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Robyn Curnow has interviewed US Presidents George. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and First Lady Michelle Obama.
She’s reported on elections, wars, and breaking news from across the world as a CNN foreign correspondent and anchor.
Robyn was born in Australia, raised in South Africa, and educated in Britain. She was a CNN reporter and anchor based at CNN’s London bureau, where she reported on the Vatican and the death of Pope John Paul II, the Asian Tsunami, the War in Iraq and the London bombings.
Later, she was CNN’s Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. She interviewed Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu numerous times. She reported on the trial of Olympian Oscar Pistorius.
Moving to America in 2014, based at CNN HQ in Atlanta, she was the host of the International Desk with Robyn Curnow on CNN International and Newsroom with Robyn Curnow on CNN International and CNN USA.
Curnow covered the Syrian war, the rise of ISIS, Brexit, the Trump Presidency, Russian and Chinese ambitions, the Afghan withdrawal during the Biden Administration, and US political tensions.
Curnow, along with her CNN colleagues, has won the Royal Television Society award for breaking news, the DuPont-Columbia award and was nominated for three Emmy awards.
She loves listening to people tell their stories.
She is repped by CAA