CBS News names Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews as president after Khemlani resigns By Reuters

(Reuters) – CBS Information stated on Monday Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, award-winning journalist and veteran information government, has been named president, after Neeraj Khemlani stepped down from the place on Sunday.

The community additionally appointed insider Wendy McMahon as president and CEO of CBS Information and Stations and CBS Media Ventures. She had beforehand shared oversight of the divisions with Khemlani.

Ciprian-Matthews, who has been with CBS Information for 30 years, joined the corporate as a senior producer for stay segments for the morning information. She most just lately served as the manager vice chairman for newsgathering.

She’s going to now have prime editorial oversight for CBS Information and oversee the community’s information content material throughout all platforms, together with broadcast, streaming, digital and radio.

Earlier than becoming a member of CBS Information in 1993, Ciprian-Matthews was the managing editor of CNN’s New York bureau. She began her profession as a common project reporter for the Nationwide Public Radio Spanish-language information program “Enfoque Nacional.”

A number of the main information occasions she coated in her profession embrace the ethnic cleaning in Kosovo within the late ’90s, bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the lethal earthquakes in China, Haiti and Chile.