Categories: OLD Media Moves

Executive editor of "Nightly Business Report" receives promotion

Rodney Ward, executive editor of “Nightly Business Report” on public television, was promoted Monday to executive vice president/special president of NBR Worldwide, the company that acquired the show in August.

Richard Prince’s Journal-isms reports, “‘In his new position, he will report directly to NBR Worldwide CEO Mykalai Kontilai on the many new platforms that are planned for NBR content. Ward will no longer be involved with the production or editorial management of the daily program,’ Stuart Zuckerman, vice president, sales and marketing, told Journal-isms.

“Wendie Feinberg, current Managing Editor, assumes those responsibilities as VP/Managing Editor.”

Read more here. Ward has been with “Nightly Business Report” since its debut in 1979, when it was a 15-minute program broadcast only in Southeast Florida.

Before being promoted into the position he currently holds, Rodney spent 11 years as managing editor. In that capacity, he guided a dedicated news team headquartered in Miami and also operating out of bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Rodney was also directly responsible for leading NBR’s regional coverage of Asia. During his tenure as managing editor, the show was recognized with a National Emmy Award as well as numerous other awards for its coverage of business and the economy.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.