From: Rhodes, David
To: @CND News
Sent: Sun Jul 24 23:30:10 2011
Subject: Campaign 2012
We’ve made some announcements about our on-air assignments for the coming political season. Today, Jeff Fager and I want to let you know how the off-air assignments will be organized– we have a great political unit going into the primaries.
Caroline Horn has done a terrific job coordinating politics on Evening News and will become Senior Producer for Politics, working between Washington and New York. Congratulations Caroline.
As you know we have a partnership with National Journal which will manage reporters on every primary campaign– if you’re interested in participating, please make sure you’ve talked with Caroline or with Rob Hendin by the end of this week. These reporters will leverage the work of our top correspondents on the beat.
Washington Bureau Chief Chris Isham is overseeing the National Journal partnership and will work with Rob, Caroline, and the Digital Newsgathering team to get everyone deployed. Some reporters from the joint CBS-NJ effort will be in the field as soon as the Iowa Straw Poll.
The political unit will include Senior Producers in key positions on our major broadcasts, especially Mosheh Oinounou, Ward Sloane, and the Face the Nation staff in Washington.
From early on in the planning for 2012, Ward has had good ideas about how to organize our coverage. Ward was first involved in these issues when he managed all the logistics of our ’88 coverage from New York.
Mosheh is just now starting with CBS as the Early Show’s senior in Washington. His last campaign was with Fox News where he covered Giuliani and later McCain in 2008 for multiple platforms.
Sr Vice President Linda Mason will be Senior Story Editor for Politics, looking after standards and practices, resolving conflicts, and continuing to direct the decision team and polling efforts. Linda as you know has run the decision desk since its reorganization in 2002 – and has been involved in political coverage here for more than 30 years.
Between new hires, CBS veterans, and some who have returned for this
campaign, CBS News is going to be more competitive than ever for
2012.
Good luck!
[ed note. Jeff Fager is chairman
and David Rhodes is president of CBS News]