Athan Stephanopoulos (@Stephanopoulos) profile picture

Formerly: EVP & Chief Digital Officer @cnn, President @nowthisnews

NYC
Joined March 2008
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CNN announces that @Stephanopoulos has been named EVP and chief digital officer; @WendyBrundige has been promoted to SVP of digital.
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Athan @Stephanopoulos Named Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer for CNN Worldwide. Welcome to CNN, Athan! cnn.it/3UjmDzd
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'People are coming home worse than they went in' — Clemency advocate Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez outlines to Pres. Biden how the U.S.'s criminal legal system is failing and what changes need to happen to support incarcerated people in and out of prison #BidenForum
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'I want to double … the size of the Pell Grants' — Here's what Pres. Biden believes the government should do to tackle the college affordability crisis #BidenForum
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'This generation that’s represented, make me incredibly optimistic’ — Pres. Biden lauded younger Americans for being the most ‘open and least prejudiced' generation in our nation's history at the start of a conversation with young change-makers #BidenForum
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Meet our 6 guests for tonight’s forum.
NowThis organized an exclusive presidential forum with @POTUS , in which the president engaged in conversation with a collection of young change-makers on 6 issues key to the midterm elections. Tune in on Sunday, October 23, at 7 pm ET!

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Mark your calendars for NowThis' presidential forum with Joe Biden! We're hosting an intimate conversation between Pres. Biden and young change-makers focused on finding solutions to the most critical issues facing their generation. RSVP now: go.nowth.is/BidenForum #BidenForum
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‘F*ck your thoughts and prayers, we want action’ — March For Our Lives board member Bria Smith shared in March 2022, warning lawmakers who are avoiding taking on gun control that ‘one day, we’ll be taking your jobs’
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'What are we doing?!'— Sen. Chris Murphy's reaction to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX, is a must-watch
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More than 1,600 civilians have been killed in Russia's war on Ukraine so far — human rights activist Amed Khan visited one mass grave in Bucha (warning: distressing)
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‘It was the right to vote that made simple people of all colors realize that that is the price of citizenship in this great nation’ — Ambassador Andrew Young sat down with VP Kamala Harris to talk about the importance of voting and MLK’s faith in change in this NowThis exclusive
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At first glance, @SteveKerr and I don't have a lot in common. He's an 8 time NBA champion. I'm completely paralyzed. But Steve and I both shared the dream of basketball as kids and, today, both share the dream of a universal healthcare system.
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I am proud of the people I go to work with at the White House every day — but my pride can’t hold a candle to that of their mothers. Happy Mother’s Day and thank you for raising these public servants.
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'Two Distant Strangers’ — a NowThis co-production — just won the Oscar for best live-action short. Congratulations to the filmmakers! Watch writer and director @Travon Free talk to NowThis about the film below: #oscars
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10) Then-VP @JoeBiden & I attended the somber 100th anniversary Mass @WNCathedral. That night, Biden told me that if he was ever in a position to do so, he would recognize the Armenian Genocide. Today, as President of the United States, he did just that.
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1) Sharing a few personal reflections on @POTUS Biden's immensely moving decision to recognize the #ArmenianGenocide at long last (1/10):
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.@POTUS' recognition of the Armenian Genocide comes after decades of struggle. After years of Turkish threats and intimidation After a murderous war on the people of Artsakh After so many heartbreaks and disappointments Thank you, President Biden, for speaking truth to power.
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INBOX: @POTUS calls Armenian genocide “genocide” A very big deal.
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WATCH: @VP Kamala Harris joins @SecGranholm, @SecDebHaaland, @SecBlinken, @Gina_McCarthy, & more for an Earth Day special, hosted by @simplyzinhle teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzekDw…
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