David Rhodes (media executive)

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David Rhodes
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Rhodes in 2017
BornDecember 1973 (age 49)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Rice University
OccupationMedia executive
Spouse
Emma Kahn Rhodes
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(m. 2005)​
Children2
Relatives Ben Rhodes (brother)

David Rhodes (born December 1973) is an American media executive. He was named Executive Chairman of the Sky News Group in February 2023. In July 2021, he was hired to lead international business development at Sky, a subsidiary of US cable company Comcast Corp. He served as the president of CBS News from 2011 until 2019. He was the youngest network news president in the history of American television. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Rhodes was born and raised in New York City. He is the son of an Episcopalian father from Texas and a Jewish mother from New York. [3] [4] He graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1996 with majors in economics and political science. [5] [6] He is the brother of Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for President Barack Obama. [4] [7] [8]

Career

Rhodes began his career in television journalism with Fox News Channel, [4] where he joined as a Production Assistant before the channel launched in October 1996. He eventually became Vice President of News and stayed at FNC for 12 years. [9] [10] In 2008, Rhodes moved to Bloomberg L.P. as Head of U.S. Television. [10] Bloomberg's cable channel underwent a major re-design in 2009. [9] [11]

In February 2011 Rhodes became president of CBS News, replacing Sean McManus. [12] At age 37 he was the youngest network news president in the history of American television. [13]

He was responsible for CBS News broadcasts and the division's news-gathering across all platforms including television, CBS News Radio, CBSNews.com [14] and CBSN, the first live-anchored streaming news network. [15] [16]

Beginning in 2015 he took over the CBS News unit of the network. In addition, he was responsible for the supervision of the CBS Evening News , CBS This Morning and more. [13]

Rhodes promoted "Real News" and put an emphasis on CBS News' journalistic traditions. [13] The division began programming CBS This Morning in 2012 [17] —emphasizing harder news coverage and bringing the morning show back to the CBS Broadcast Center from a remote studio. CBS News' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer was expanded to one hour and emerged as the #1 Sunday morning public affairs show. [9] [18]

On January 6, 2019, Susan Zirinsky was named President of CBS News, replacing David Rhodes. [19] [20] [21] Rhodes stepped down on March 1, 2019, "after overseeing Zirinsky’s transition and having an advisory role after that." [21] According to Variety, with Rhodes at the helm, "CBS News expanded into new digital territories and placed more emphasis on its roots as a trusted hard-news outlet, refashioning the network’s morning show and launching streaming-news outlet CBSN." [22]

In September 2019 he began work as a consultant for Spotify's original podcast development, [23] and he has also worked for the Los Angeles Times since leaving CBS. [24]

In May 2020 he began to work for News UK, the British division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. He is developing several current affairs and entertainment programs, [25] [26] [27] but the project was discontinued when Rhodes' team concluded it was unwise to launch a traditional cable news business in the present market. [28]

In July 2021, Rhodes was hired to lead international business development at Sky, a Comcast subsidiary. [29]

Boards

David Rhodes was chairman of the advisory board of The Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. [30] He also serves on the Rice University Board of Trustees, [31] The Baker Institute Board of Advisors, [32] the advisory board for Rice University's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, [33] and the advisory board of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. [34]

Awards and recognition

Rhodes became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum at the group's 2013 gathering in Yangon, Myanmar, and participates in the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. [35] Rhodes reached the top 10 of Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in 2012 [36] and has been named to a number of media and business lists, including The Hollywood Reporter's 35 Most Powerful People in Media, [37] 2012Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40, [38] and GQ's 50 Most Powerful People in Washington. He is the Radio Television Digital News Foundation's 2018 First Amendment Service Award recipient. [39]

Personal life

In 2005, he married Emma Kahn. [40] He currently splits his time between London and New York with his spouse and two sons. [41]

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