Jan 06 2019
Acclaimed, Award-Winning Producer to Take Helm of CBS News in March
Susan Zirinsky, an acclaimed journalist and highly respected senior executive producer at CBS News, has been named President and Senior Executive Producer of CBS News, it was announced today by Joe Ianniello, President and Acting CEO of CBS Corporation. Zirinsky, who will report to the CEO, begins in her new role in March.
Zirinsky began her career at CBS News in the Washington bureau two weeks after the Watergate break-in. Over the next four decades she produced a wide variety of award-winning documentaries and programs, and she covered a range of historic stories, from the Gulf War to the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, from the White House for 10 years to the 9/11 attacks, and from the Paris terrorist attacks to the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla. School.
Zirinsky is currently the senior executive producer of the award-winning 48 HOURS and is responsible for numerous CBS News breaking news specials. She is also the senior executive producer of 48 HOURS: NCIS and the senior executive producer of the CBS primetime series WHISTLEBLOWER.
A prolific producer on a variety of issues and subjects, her work has been lauded by critics and honored by her peers with journalism's top honors, including Emmys, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.
No broadcast news producer is more highly respected and admired than Susan Zirinsky, said Ianniello. She is an exceptional leader, a creative force, and an outstanding and proven journalist. Her energy, innovative instincts and competitive spirit are just what is needed to bring the best of CBS News to viewers on every platform.
I have been honored to work closely throughout my career with great CBS News journalists, said Zirinsky. This may be a new role, but the mission is the same: deliver quality, in-depth journalism and engaging storytelling. CBS News has an incredible legacy to build on. The public's interest today for news and information is intense, and CBS News is uniquely positioned to expand its reach.
Zirinsky brings to the position extensive experience leading teams of investigative journalists, building and developing new non-fiction programs; creating innovative ways to report news; and mentoring and guiding the careers of some of the industry's brightest journalists.
She has executive produced many highly praised and compelling news documentaries, including The Spymasters CIA in the Crosshairs for SHOWTIME in 2015, co-produced with filmmakers Gideon and Jules Naudet and Chris Whipple, featuring, for the first time, interviews with all 12 living former and current heads of the CIA, appearing in one program. In 2004, also for SHOWTIME, she executive produced Three Days in September, which told the story of a school taken hostage in Beslan, Russia. Narrated by Julia Roberts that documentary was also featured in the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, in 2002, she co-executive produced with the Naudets and firefighter James Hanlon 9/11, the most comprehensive account of the tragedy. Hosted by Robert De Niro, more than 39 million people watched this Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary.
Zirinsky executive produced the 2013 CBS News documentary series Brooklyn DA, a candid look behind the scenes at investigators pursuing crime and punishment.
Additionally, Zirinsky is a successful producer of CBS breaking news specials. Those projects include the March 2018 documentary 39 Days, which followed the group of students who banded together after the Parkland, Fla mass shooting, co-executive produced by Judy Tygard. She has also produced breaking news specials on the royal wedding in 2018; the inauguration of President Donald Trump in 2017; the Dallas police shootings in 2016; the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015; the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013; the mass shooting in an Aurora, Co. theater in 2012; and the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting also in 2012. She's produced specials following the deaths of Mary Tyler Moore in 2017, Muhammad Ali in 2016 and Nelson Mandela in 2013. In 2009 Zirinsky executive produced Ted Kennedy: The Last Brother and That's the Way It Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite.
She also produced the documentary series The Injustice Files for ID Discovery and the CBS News documentaries The Lord's Bootcamp, In God's Name and Flashpoint. She executive produced David Letterman: A Life on Television in 2015; Vanity Fair's Hollywood in 2013; The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family, a 2013 documentary about the Grammys and the night Whitney Houston died; and Fashion's Night Out with Vogue editor Anna Wintour in 2010.
Zirinsky got her start at CBS News at a critical time in the nation's history. Beginning as a part-time desk assistant in the CBS Washington Bureau in 1972 while attending college at American University, she was surrounded by the legendary CBS News reporting team led by Walter Cronkite that dominated Watergate coverage on television. In October 1973, she was alone in the Washington newsroom one night when word broke that President Richard Nixon had fired his attorney general, the so-called Saturday Night Massacre. She found herself at the center of a huge story.
Continually growing within the division, Zirinsky would become an associate producer for The CBS Morning News and then a producer on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. In that role, she became a White House producer and spent a decade covering the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan presidencies. She traveled with them throughout the world where she produced reports with Lesley Stahl, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer and Bill Plante for various broadcasts. She was promoted in 1987 to senior producer for the CBS Evening News
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