CNN Special Investigations Unit

CNN Special Investigations Unit
The titlecard for CNN S.I.U.
Starring	Varies
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	CNN
Original release	January 20, 2007
External links
Website

CNN Special Investigations Unit is an American investigative documentary program on CNN weekends.

Expanding upon CNN Presents, SIU focuses on each episode being an in depth investigative report about news stories being covered, commonly featuring a number of interviews with experts on the issue and people who have witnessed the story taking place. The reports are commonly long-form, allowing for the network to cover more information and perspectives than would be available during a 5-minute report on another CNN program, such as CNN Newsroom.

Compared to Presents, the show has taken a slightly larger point of the reporting being done by CNN reporters, the first commercials promoting the program largely showing pictures of anchors and reporters on locations, asking questions to people on the locations. In addition, the look and feel of the show has changed somewhat drastically, adding more emphasis on the graphics used to present the program itself, in addition to the stories being covered. In addition, presentations on SIU are shorter in length than on Presents, which is now used as a special event for larger special reports that take place on a long-term basis.

Since the program's introduction, the network has slowly shifted towards relabeling past Presents presentations into SIU formatted ones, changing the graphics to reflect the new general label given to long-form reporting done by the network.

CNN Special Investigations Unit taps into the network's worldwide resources and deep bench of journalists, including chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, anchors Anderson Cooper, John Roberts, and Soledad O'Brien, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, correspondents John King, Candy Crowley, Abbie Boudreau, Drew Griffin and others.

CNN original programming

Weekday	Early Start with John Berman and Christine Romans New Day CNN Newsroom At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan Wolf The Lead with Jake Tapper The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Erin Burnett OutFront Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Tonight CNN Newsroom

Weekend	CNN Newsroom New Day Saturday New Day Sunday Smerconish CNN Newsroom CNN Special Investigations Unit Inside Politics with John King State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter

Special	CNN Presents CNN Heroes Chicagoland The Sixties The Seventies The Eighties The Nineties United Shades of America Race for the White House Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown The Hunt with John Walsh Declassified This Is Life with Lisa Ling Somebody's Gotta Do It

Former	American Morning Around the World Business Morning Campbell Brown Capital Gang CNN Daybreak CNN Live Today Your Money CNN NewsStand Connie Chung Tonight Crossfire D. L. Hughley Breaks the News Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields In the Arena Larry King Live NewsNight with Aaron Brown The Next List Paula Zahn Now (Get to) The Point People in the News Sports Tonight Starting Point Style with Elsa Klensch TalkBack Live The Real Football Factories International (was shown on CNNI) Wolf Blitzer Reports Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Your World Today (shown on CNNI, now cancelled) This Week in Politics Lou Dobbs This Week Lou Dobbs Tonight Rick's List John King, USA Your Bottom Line Piers Morgan Live Sanjay Gupta MD

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