BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: It is a special year in the year 2000 for many folks, it is also special for us here at CNN. This year we celebrate our 20th anniversary of bringing news to the world. Today, we go behind-the-scenes for a look at what makes CNN a truly international network.</s>EASON JORDAN, PRESIDENT, NEWS GATHERING & INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS: Outside the United States, we have 26 bureaus, and they are overseen by an international assignment desk here in Atlanta, which is made up of people from all over the world, journalists from all over the world, who contribute to our news coverage and for CNN USA, CNN International and for all of the CNN networks. We have international assignment editors who are assigned to specific bureaus, to specific regions, and those people in many cases are experts and speak the language or come from the region. Right now, the international managing editor, the person responsible for all international coverage at CNN, is a native of Iran. Parisa Khoravi, she speaks not only Farsi and French, but Zarastrian (ph) and other languages, and is a tremendous asset.</s>PARISA KHOSRAVI, CNN INTERNATIONAL NEWS MANAGING EDITOR: Our job is to make sure that the news of the day is covered, whatever that may be. And that is a big responsibility because if you are doing a side story and you are losing track of the big picture, at the end of the day your coverage is not balanced and accurate. So that is our decision, a lot of times you are trying to get somebody on the phone, and trying to see if the story is checking out, multi-source it. It is our job: finding the right sources, double- checking, and making sure it is correct.
CNN 20: International News Gathering, Behind the Scenes at CNN