Fleming joins Bloomberg as breaking news editor
Zac Fleming has joined Bloomberg as a breaking news editor in New York. He joins from CBS News, where he was a producer on the foreign desk. He has also worked as a senior producer and then as a reporter at Discovery Inc. He was also an output producer at Al Jazeera and was a […]
NY Times adds three to video
The following excerpt announcement was sent out by The New York Times associate managing editor and executive director for video Nancy Donaldson Gauss: Rex Sakamoto has joined us as a senior producer leading our expansion of evening news coverage. Most recently, he worked at NowThis News as a senior producer overseeing news and enterprise video pieces. […]
Sanchez departs CBS for NBC News
NBC News has hired Stephen Sanchez as a booking researcher. He joins from CBS News, where he was a broadcast associate on the assignment desk. He has also worked as a news intern and then as an assignment desk coordinator at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sanchez graduated from the University of the Incarnate Word, where he […]
The New Republic adds three to boost political coverage
The New Republic has added Timothy Noah, Daniel Strauss, and Grace Segers to the magazine’s Washington D.C. team as staff writers, reporting to newly appointed editor Michael Tomasky. Previously, Noah was a labor policy editor at Politico and has contributed to MSNBC.com. He was senior editor and “TRB From Washington” columnist at The New Republic. […]
CBS editor Zapka departs
Devin Zapka, assignment editor, CBSN, at CBS News has left. He had been with the network for close to 2 years. Before that, Zapka was an associate producer of the Network News Service at Fox News Media. He was also a technical production and transmissions coordinator at Bloomberg LP. He was also a video producer […]
ABC News taps Godwin as president
ABC News has named Kimberly Godwin its president, replacing James Goldston, who left the network last month. In her new role, Godwin will oversee editorial and business operations for broadcast, digital, streaming and audio news across the organization. She will also be overseeing the top programs, including “Good Morning America.” She will be reporting to […]
Longtime CBS News business correspondent Brady dies at 94
Ray Brady, a longtime CBS News correspondent who focused on business and the economy, died Jan. 12 at his home in Manhattan. He was 94. Cynthia Littleton of Variety reports, “Brady spent 28 years with CBS News, starting in 1972 when he joined CBS Radio. He retired in 2000 after 23 years as a correspondent for ‘CBS […]
Veteran news executive at CBS, NBC, Small dies aged 93
Broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News’ Washington coverage and was later president of NBC News and United Press International, died Sunday at the age of 93. The cause of his death was a brief illness, unrelated to the coronavirus, CBS reported. During a six-decade career, Small supervised, guided and even hired […]
CBS to launch “60 in 6” news show
Streaming service Quibi has partnered with CBS News to modernize “60 Minutes” which is a form of style programming for the era of bite-sized video. Now, instead of an hour-long magazine, CBS News will launch “60 in 6,” which will condense original news stories into six-minute episodes. These episodes will be for viewing on mobile […]
