Jeff Zucker
Summary
Jeffrey "Jeff" Zucker (born 9 April 1965) is an American television executive and the President and CEO of NBC Universal. Zucker was born to Jewish-American parents in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. His father was a cardiologist, and his mother, Arlene, was a school teacher. He has a younger sister, Pam. He was captain of the North Miami Senior High School tennis team, editor of the school paper, and a teenage freelance reporter ("stringer") for The Miami Herald. The 5-foot-6-inch Zucker also served as president of his senior class, running on the slogan: "The little man with the big ideas." Before college, he took part in Northwestern University's National High School Institute program for journalism. Zucker went on to Harvard University, serving as President of the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, during his senior year.
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CNN's Documentary Unit Officially Up and Running
In addition to green-lighting nonfiction fare featuring personalities such as Anthony Bourdain and Morgan Spurlock, CNN’s new boss Jeff Zucker has kept in place CNN Films, new documentary production and acquisition division, which was announced last October—a month before his hire was announced. The unit officially got off the ground with the airing last week of its first documentary.
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The New CNN Gets Into the Big Data Game
CNN is once again trying its hand at the analytics game in the upfront, only this time it has the backing of a larger partnership. The cable news network is joining forces with Nielsen and Arbitron to create CNN All-Screen, which will measure out-of-home and cross-platform viewing to create a more accurate measurement for the network’s ad impressions.
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Former G.M.A. Chief to Take Charge of CNN’s Planned Morning Show
Jim Murphy will lead the attempt by CNN to recapture morning television glory, a priority of CNN Worldwide's new chief, Jeff Zucker.
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Media Decoder Blog: Former G.M.A. Chief to Take Charge of CNN’s Planned Morning Show
Jim Murphy will lead the attempt by CNN to recapture morning television glory, a priority of CNN Worldwide’s new chief, Jeff Zucker.
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Soledad O'Brien Off Daily Duties at CNN
It's been rumored for a while and now it's official: Soledad O'Brien is out of the mix at CNN. She'll be producing documentaries for the network, but O'Brien will no longer have a daily presence at the rapidly evolving CNN.
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Monkey goes to ... The RTS Television Journalism awards | Media Monkey
The annual RTS Television Journalism awards can be a sombre affair, despite the venue at the Hilton hotel on London's Park Lane, and on Wednesday night there was a near three minute silence before the dinner, as a black screen scrolled up hundreds of names of journalists, cameramen and producers killed in 2012, many in Syria – and a reminder that last year's event had been overshadowed by the breaking news of Marie Colvin's death in Homs.
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How CNN Sells Breaking News
CNN took plenty of heat yesterday for its extensive coverage of Carnival’s ill-fated “Poop Cruise”—upon losing power in the Gulf of Mexico, the cruise ship Triumph transformed into a drifting hellscape of overflowing toilets, food shortages and sickened passengers—prompting at least one Twitter wag to dub the network’s 4 p.
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Time Warner Sees Returns on Netflix Deal
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes Wednesday gave investors his take on the subscription video on demand (SVOD) business, specifically Netflix, which has been inking deals left and right.
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CNN loses way as Americans switch to partisan hosts and celebrity chat
The new boss wants less analysis and more of Piers Morgan's punchy opinions. Will this change stop the ratings rot at the pioneering network?.
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NBC News President Steve Capus will step down
NBC News President Steve Capus, who presided over years of strong ratings at the news division and expanded digital offerings but was hurt by the downfall of the "Today" show, said Friday that he was resigning.
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