CBS News has tapped Alturo Rhymes in the newly created position of executive producer of daily news, while correspondent Jim Axelrod will be leading a new Eye on America unit.
Rhymes will be responsible for “centralizing our daily Newsgathering offerings to the broadcasts, stream and digital so that we are positioned to aggressively advance stories in the news each day and ensure our best reporting flows seamlessly to all shows and platforms,” according to a note to staffers sent by CBS News President Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews.
“By streamlining the decision-making process around daily news we’ll be faster and deeper in our reporting from morning to night and ultimately better positioned to own the big stories,” she wrote.
Alturo Rhymes
Rhymes was most recently executive story editor for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, and previously was co-senior broadcast producer of the program. He joined the network in 2005 as a producer at Newspath.
Rhymes will be responsible for “centralizing our daily Newsgathering offerings to the broadcasts, stream and digital so that we are positioned to aggressively advance stories in the news each day and ensure our best reporting flows seamlessly to all shows and platforms,” according to a note to staffers sent by CBS News President Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews.
“By streamlining the decision-making process around daily news we’ll be faster and deeper in our reporting from morning to night and ultimately better positioned to own the big stories,” she wrote.
Alturo Rhymes
Rhymes was most recently executive story editor for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, and previously was co-senior broadcast producer of the program. He joined the network in 2005 as a producer at Newspath.
- 2/6/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Al Ortiz, a longtime veteran of CBS News, is returning to the CBS Evening News as interim executive producer, taking the place of Jay Shaylor, who stepped down from the Norah O’Donnell-anchored newscast earlier this month.
Ortiz previously served as executive producer of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1998 to 2001, and for the past seven years has been the vice president of standards and practices.
Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News and Stations, said in a memo to staffers, “As we looked to identify the strongest leader for the ‘CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,’ it was critical to find a steady hand who could uphold the standards that have been set for this broadcast over many generations.”
Khemlani noted that Ortiz worked with O’Donnell before the newscast moved to Washington in late 2019. He started at the network in 1977 at CBS News Radio.
“His perspective is broad,...
Ortiz previously served as executive producer of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1998 to 2001, and for the past seven years has been the vice president of standards and practices.
Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News and Stations, said in a memo to staffers, “As we looked to identify the strongest leader for the ‘CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,’ it was critical to find a steady hand who could uphold the standards that have been set for this broadcast over many generations.”
Khemlani noted that Ortiz worked with O’Donnell before the newscast moved to Washington in late 2019. He started at the network in 1977 at CBS News Radio.
“His perspective is broad,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Jay Shaylor is leaving CBS as executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, the latest change in the news and stations division under new presidents Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani.
“Jay Shaylor is leaving the company,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his contributions to the broadcast and for helping develop it into the impactful program it is today.”
Shaylor was named EP of CBS Evening News in September, 2019, just a couple months after O’Donnell took over as anchor of the nightly broadcast. The show moved from New York to Washington, and O’Donnell has landed a number of big get interviews since then, but it is still in third place. The network said that the broadcast as “in its best competitive position in years,” as CBS has promoted the narrowing of the audience gap between CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
“Jay Shaylor is leaving the company,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his contributions to the broadcast and for helping develop it into the impactful program it is today.”
Shaylor was named EP of CBS Evening News in September, 2019, just a couple months after O’Donnell took over as anchor of the nightly broadcast. The show moved from New York to Washington, and O’Donnell has landed a number of big get interviews since then, but it is still in third place. The network said that the broadcast as “in its best competitive position in years,” as CBS has promoted the narrowing of the audience gap between CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
- 7/16/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Jay Shaylor, the executive producer of “CBS Evening News,” has stepped down from his post, one of the first significant rearrangements of top producers at the ViacomCBS news division since it was placed under the aegis of new top executives.
“Jay Shaylor is leaving the company. We thank him for his contributions to the broadcast and for helping develop it into the impactful program it is today,” CBS News said in a statement. Shaylor joined CBS News after serving many years at CNN, where he supervised “The Situation Room,” the long-running early-evening program led by Wolf Blitzer that competes directly with the broadcast networks’ evening-news programs.
“CBS Evening News,” led by Norah O’Donnell, has seen its viewership improve over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, and it has become one of the most-watched programs on ViacomCBS’ CBS broadcast network. At the same time, the evening-news program, which has historical ties...
“Jay Shaylor is leaving the company. We thank him for his contributions to the broadcast and for helping develop it into the impactful program it is today,” CBS News said in a statement. Shaylor joined CBS News after serving many years at CNN, where he supervised “The Situation Room,” the long-running early-evening program led by Wolf Blitzer that competes directly with the broadcast networks’ evening-news programs.
“CBS Evening News,” led by Norah O’Donnell, has seen its viewership improve over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, and it has become one of the most-watched programs on ViacomCBS’ CBS broadcast network. At the same time, the evening-news program, which has historical ties...
- 7/16/2021
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
PBS dominated the 36th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which were doled out tonight at at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in Manhattan. The pubcaster lapped the field with 17 trophies, nearly doubling runner-up CBS’ nine. NBC was third with four. Univision (three) and The New York Times (two) were the only other outlets to score more than a single statuette.
Amid a rocky 2015, NBC Nightly News took home the plum Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for its reporting on Ukraine. The program also won two others. CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley also won a pair of awards.
CNN founder Ted Turner was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary, which was presented by Larry King.
“The journalists and documentarians we pay tribute to this evening are our eyes and ears across the globe, bringing back the stories...
Amid a rocky 2015, NBC Nightly News took home the plum Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for its reporting on Ukraine. The program also won two others. CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley also won a pair of awards.
CNN founder Ted Turner was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary, which was presented by Larry King.
“The journalists and documentarians we pay tribute to this evening are our eyes and ears across the globe, bringing back the stories...
- 9/29/2015
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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