Amy Entelis is the Executive Vice President for Talent and Content Development for

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. She leads the development, production, and acquisition of original, long-form premium content for the network. Entelis is the senior talent executive at

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and is responsible for the recruitment and development of all on-air correspondents, anchors, and contributors for CNN programming and global platforms.

Biography

Entelis was born Amy Lynn Radwell, the daughter of Jeanne and Louis Radwell, on

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. Entelis graduated from

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, where she majored in psychology, and later attended

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, where she earned a Master of Science in Journalism. Entelis began her career in television journalism at

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as a producer for the weekly news magazine ''

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'' and then as a producer at ''

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''. During her thirty-year tenure, Entelis worked in various roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately serving as senior vice president for talent strategy, development, and research. She recruited and managed talent for the network's most high-profile news programs including ''

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'', '' World News Tonight'', '' Nightline'', and ''

''. While at ABC News, Entelis received several journalism honors, including a National News Emmy, a DuPont-Columbia Award, a

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Media Excellence Award, the Headliner Award from the

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, and a

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from the

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for Distinguished Journalism. In 2012, Entelis joined

. Under her leadership, CNN launched four premium content brands for the network's global platforms: CNN Original Series and HLN Original Series, for which Entelis and her team develop nonfiction programming;

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, for which Entelis produces and acquires documentary films for festival, theatrical, broadcast, and streaming distribution; and CNN Films Presents, for which Entelis acquires encore runs of notable documentary films for broadcast on CNN. Entelis is credited with building the CNN Original Series brand, bringing to audiences the 13-time Primetime Emmy Award winner ''Parts Unknown'' with

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; '' Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy'', winner of the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series; ''

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'' with

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; the five-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning, '' United Shades of America'' with

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; the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated "Decades Series": ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Nineties'', ''

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,'' executive produced by

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, and Mark Herzog; the forthcoming '' Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico''; and many others. Notable

executive produced by Entelis include '' Navalny'', directed by

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, about the attempted assassination of Russian opposition leader,

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, which won the Audience Award at the

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; '' Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain'', directed by Academy Award winner

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and distributed in theaters by

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; ''

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'', directed by

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and featured on 2020 Oscars Shortlist in the category of Best Documentary Feature; '' RBG'' from

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and Julie Cohen, which earned nominations for Best Documentary Feature and

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("I'll Fight") at the

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; ''

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'', directed by Tim Wardle, which was a nominee in the Best Documentary category at the

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; '' Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice'', directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, which won

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at the

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; ''We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World'', which features Former First Lady

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, and CNN’s Isha Sesay and was honored with a

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Award and a

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; and ''

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'', directed by

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, which was nominated for the

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Personal life

Entelis is married to Charles Franklin Entelis and resides with her family in New York City. She serves as the Chair of the Board of Visitors of the

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References

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