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The Advisor - size 8
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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