Vladimir Duthiers

Vladimir Duthiers (; ; born December 21, 1969) is an American television journalist who has been a correspondent for CBS News since 2014 following five years at CNN. He was a member of the CNN team that won two Emmy Awards for its coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and he won a Peabody Award for his coverage from Nigeria of the kidnapping of the schoolgirls by Boko Haram. Early life Duthiers was born and raised in New York, the son of Haitian immigrants of partial French descent. He is fluent in French and Haitian Creole. He also has partial French-Chinese ancestry, and speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently. He attended the University of Rhode Island, first with a journalism major before switching his focus to political science. He graduated in 1991 and began working on Wall Street in the financial services industry. He joined the asset management firm AllianceBernstein in 1993 where he was ultimately promoted to Managing Director responsible for business development in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, before returning part-time to study broadcast journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Career While at Columbia, Duthiers joined CNN in 2009, first as an intern, then as a production assistant, working on Christiane Amanpour's Amanpour and Anderson Cooper 360°. The day after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he traveled to Haiti with the CNN team, working as an interpreter and production assistant. He was part of the team that won two Emmy Awards for its coverage of the earthquake. He was later posted to Nigeria as an international correspondent, where he won a Peabody Award for his work covering the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram.