概要
Executive Chairman, Sky News Group with overall responsibility for Sky’s news services across EMEA. A Young Global Leader, 2013-2018 class. Sky is a wholly-owned division of Comcast-NBCUniversal, the US media, technology and connectivity conglomerate. The Sky News Group includes Sky News (in English), Sky TG24 (in Italian), their digital extensions, partnerships, and joint ventures, with over 800 editorial staff globally managed from headquarters in London. Previously, David was President, UK Broadcasting for News Corporation, his second stint with the company where he started his career in 1996 at Fox News. President of CBS News from 2011-2019 where his team launched “CBS This Morning,” the network’s most-competitive performance in that daypart, expanded the Washington public-affairs program “Face the Nation,” made generational transitions of key broadcast talent on “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes"-- making significant cultural changes over eight years. CBS News forged a global news-gathering partnership with BBC News and in 2014 launched the first live-streaming news network, then called CBSN, a precursor FAST channel (free ad-supported streaming television). At Bloomberg LP from 2008 to 2011 he served as Head of US Television. He has also consulted for Spotify, the Los Angeles Times, and BCG. On the Board of Trustees of Rice University and a past member of the Advisory Board of the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy and External Board of the Rice-Doerr Institute for New Leaders. Also past boards of the Riverdale Country School (New York City), Edward R Murrow Center for a Digital World within Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Massachusetts), and Hampton University school of journalism and mass communications (Virginia). David lives in London with his wife Emma, also in the news media, most recently with Goals House and Needham Partners, earlier with MTV Networks, CBS, the New York Post, and Cablevision (now Altice USA). They have two boys, aged 19 and 17, in the US and UK.