Adrienne Roark, Jennifer Mitchell Take Oversight of CBS News, CBS Stations
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The next president of CBS News will also run a group of major market local stations in New York and Boston.
The next head of CBS’ local stations will also supervise digital properties tied to national programming. Adrienne Roark and Jennifer Mitchell will take new oversight of CBS News and CBS’ local stations, respectively, in the latest batch of maneuvers by Paramount Global to combine the operations of both businesses.
Their duties show the emphasis CBS is putting on merging local TV operations and national newsgathering — two of the bedrock operations of the media business — at at time when the rise of streaming video has thrown their economics into disarray.
And they leave CBS News with a senior executive team that is better versed in the business of TV than in the editorial decisions that lead to the creation of news content. “Our journalists and team members across the division are working together more collaboratively and efficiently to drive impact across all of our shows and streams,” said Wendy McMahon, president and CEO of the business operations of the company’s national newsgathering operations, local stations and syndication unit. “This structure is designed to support and build our next-generation news organization.
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