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Susan Bunda

CNN news executive Susan Bunda is currently serving in her newly created position of executive vice president of content development and strategy for CNN Worldwide. Bunda's responsibilities include developing programming for CNN consumer platforms and marshalling CNN talent, resources and experience on wide-ranging business initiatives. She is based in Atlanta at CNN world headquarters.

Prior to her newly appointed position, Bunda served as senior vice president of news for CNN/U.S., where she oversaw the network's Atlanta-based programming and all editorial content from CNN's domestic bureaus, as well as the medical and science & technology units. She helped lead CNN's coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the South Asia tsunami, Pope John Paul II's funeral, the 2004 presidential campaign and elections and the continuing war in Iraq. She also was instrumental in the creation of I-Reports, content submitted from viewers from their cell phones, cameras and other devices.

Previously, Bunda was senior vice president of talk shows and guest bookings for CNN/U.S., an executive producer with the CNN Special Events Unit and executive producer of the legal analysis show Burden of Proof. She joined CNN in 1987 as a producer and writer. Earlier in her career, she was with WWMT in Kalamazoo, Mich., and WMAQ in Chicago.

Bunda majored in communications and minored in journalism at Western Michigan University. She is an executive member of Women in Cable Telecommunications and served on the inaugural diversity committee at CNN.



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