Matthew Chance
{{Short description|British journalist (born 1970)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}
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|employer=CNN (2001–present)
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Matthew Gerald Chance (born 14 March 1970){{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=pNnpmRlsaLuuwmaRzB%2FDCQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=16 June 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} is a British journalist working for CNN as the network's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent.{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 – The Media Show, BONUS Matthew Chance, CNN Senior International Correspondent|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06y8fgy|access-date=2020-06-20|publisher=BBC|date=16 January 2019 |language=en-GB}}
Career
Before joining CNN, Chance was a freelance journalist based in Asia.
Chance joined CNN in October 2001, replacing correspondent Steve Harrigan in Northern Afghanistan after Harrigan left CNN for Fox News Channel while on assignment.
Over the past two decades, he has covered the fall of Kabul to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in 2001, the invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces in 2003, the Beslan school hostage crisis, the 2005 London bombings, Russia under President Vladimir Putin's leadership, the 2008 South Ossetia war and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web |last=Cone |first=Lauren |title=Matthew Chance – Chief Global Affairs Correspondent |url=https://www.cnn.com/profiles/matthew-chance |access-date=2024-06-20 |publisher=CNN|language=en}}
In August 2008, Chance interviewed Vladimir Putin, who was then serving as Prime Minister of Russia.{{Cite web |title=Transcript: CNN interview with Vladimir Putin – CNN.com |url=https://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/29/putin.transcript/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |publisher=CNN}}
Chance was one of the journalists held by forces of Colonel Gaddafi at the Rixos al Nasr hotel in Tripoli, Libya, in August 2011.{{Cite news|date=2011-08-23|title=CNN's Intrepid Correspondent: 'I'm Gonna Try Not to Get Hit...'|language=en|agency=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS197516904320110823|access-date=2020-06-20}} He reported by Twitter throughout the ordeal, and was live on CNN as the International Committee of the Red Cross finally evacuated the detainees.{{Cite web|date=2011-08-24|title=CNN's Chance out of Rixos 'nightmare,' ready to go home|url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2011/08/cnns-matthew-chance-had-been-out-of-the-virtual-prison-known-as-the-rixos-hotel-for-several-hours-but-he-still-hadnt-been-abl.html|access-date=2020-06-20|website=Los Angeles Times Blogs – The Big Picture|language=en-US}}
Chance returned to London after the Libyan Civil War, and reported from Italy on the resignation of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2011 as well as the release of Amanda Knox from a prison in Perugia that same year. He reported from Greece on the Greek government-debt crisis, and from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on the nuclear program of Iran.
He also reported on natural disasters, including the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - Tsunami death toll tops 118,000 - Dec 30, 2004 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/asia.quake/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |publisher=CNN}}{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - South Asian quake, Guatemalan mudslides - Oct 10, 2005 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/10/10/transcript.tue/index.html |access-date=2024-06-20 |publisher=CNN}}
In 2022, Chance reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and witnessed Russian paratroopers at Antonov Airport.{{Cite web |title=Youtube.com - CNN reporter just steps away from Russian troops - Feb 20, 2024 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1J6LpkG9zo |access-date=2024-07-13 |via=YouTube| date=24 February 2022 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/chance.matthew.html Matthew's profile on CNN.com]
- [https://archive.today/20121128014853/http://community.livejournal.com/cnni/3198.html Interview with CNN Media Info]
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Category:People from Stourbridge
Category:Alumni of the University of London