Full Name
Susan Zirinsky
Job Title
President
Company
CBS News
Speaker Bio
Susan Zirinsky was named president and senior executive producer of CBS News in March.
Zirinsky, an acclaimed journalist and highly respected senior executive producer at CBS News, began her career in the CBS News Washington bureau two weeks after the Watergate break-in. Over the next four decades she produced a wide variety of award winning documentaries and programs and she covered a range of historic stories, from the Gulf War to the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, from the White House for 10 years to the 9/11 attacks, and from the Paris terrorist attacks to the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla. School.
Prior to taking on her new role, Zirinsky was the senior executive producer of the award-winning "48 Hours" and was responsible for numerous CBS News breaking news specials. She was also the senior executive producer of "48 Hours: NCIS" and the CBS primetime series "Whistleblower."
A prolific producer on a variety of issues, she has been recognized with journalism's top honors including News and Documentary Emmy Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.
Zirinsky, an acclaimed journalist and highly respected senior executive producer at CBS News, began her career in the CBS News Washington bureau two weeks after the Watergate break-in. Over the next four decades she produced a wide variety of award winning documentaries and programs and she covered a range of historic stories, from the Gulf War to the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, from the White House for 10 years to the 9/11 attacks, and from the Paris terrorist attacks to the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla. School.
Prior to taking on her new role, Zirinsky was the senior executive producer of the award-winning "48 Hours" and was responsible for numerous CBS News breaking news specials. She was also the senior executive producer of "48 Hours: NCIS" and the CBS primetime series "Whistleblower."
A prolific producer on a variety of issues, she has been recognized with journalism's top honors including News and Documentary Emmy Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.
