Candle Media Taps Former ABC News Chief James Goldston To Head New Nonfiction Division
deadline.comFormer ABC News Chief James Goldston has joined Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media to head up a new division focused on scripted and non-scripted features and series inspired by true stories.
Goldston will serve as President of the new group. The veteran journalist and storyteller spent 18 years at ABC News, including seven years as President, overseeing all aspects of the news division, including No.
1 rated Good Morning America and World News with David Muir. He also led ABC News into the streaming era with a series of successful podcast and documentary projects for Hulu and Disney+, including The Dropout, produced by Rebecca Jarvis and her team, which became a successful podcast, documentary and Emmy- winning scripted series for Hulu, and John’s Ridley’s Let it Fall, a duPont-Columbia Award-winning documentary on the LA riots.
His teams have won five Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence, and numerous other honors in journalism, including a Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and Emmy awards. “Kevin and Tom have built a best-in-class team of storytellers at Candle Media,” said Goldston. “I’m thrilled to work with this brilliant group to create premium content based on the most compelling true-life stories.” After leaving ABC News in 2021, Goldston founded Aquitania Films, creating documentary series for the US, UK and global market.
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