Kim Godwin Named News Division President Of ABC Making Her The First Black Woman To Be Given The Position
Kim Godwin has worked at CBS News since 2007, after running local broadcast news operations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Cleveland.
April 15, 2021
ABC Names Kim Godwin Its News Division President, Making Her The First Black Woman To Be The Top News Executive (Photo Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ABC named Kim Godwin as its news division president on Wednesday, making her the first Black woman to be the top news executive at a broadcast network.
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Kimberly Godwin, a longtime broadcast operations professional, has been named the next president of ABC News.
She will become the first Black executive to run a broadcast network s news organization, multiple outlets reported on Wednesday.
Kimberly Godwin, a former CBS News executive and longtime broadcast operations professional, has been named the next president of ABC News, becoming the first Black executive to run a broadcast network s news organization, multiple outlets reported on Wednesday.
Godwin will succeed former ABC News president James Goldston. Godwin will leave CBS News, where she has worked since 2007, and oversee ABC News programming, including popular productions like Good Morning America, The View, and World News Tonight.