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CNN.COM EXECUTIVES
CNN.com’s executive team guides the overall award-winning editorial coverage and business strategy for CNN.com, the Web site of the Most Trusted Name in News.
| EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF CNN NEWS SERVICES |
Susan Grant
Susan Grant is executive vice president of CNN News Services. CNN News Services is a business unit consisting of the following divisions: CNN Business Operations, CNN.com, CNN Content Sales/Business Development, CNN Newsource Sales, CNNRadio and Turner Learning. Grant's responsibilities include overseeing all distribution, sales and affiliate relations, marketing, business affairs and public relations for these groups. Grant is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta and reports to Jim Walton, president of the CNN News Group. Grant is a member of the CNN Executive Committee as well as the CNN Diversity Committee.
Before being promoted to her current position, Grant was president of CNN Newsource Sales and Turner Learning. Grant has overseen CNN Newsource Sales' growth in affiliates from 250 to today's nearly 800 local news-producing stations, thereby securing access to breaking-news footage from across North America. Immediately prior, Grant was president of Turner Program Services (TPS), responsible for domestic syndication sales and marketing for the company's television programming.
Before joining TPS in June 1994 as executive vice president, responsible for all sales and marketing activities, Grant spent eight years with Columbia TriStar Television Distribution. While at Columbia, Grant served as vice president, Southeast region, and was responsible for marketing and selling such syndication hits as Who's the Boss?, Married . . . With Children, Seinfeld and Ricki Lake. Grant joined Columbia TriStar, then Embassy Communications, in 1986 as an account executive before becoming vice president in 1988.
Previously, Grant worked for eight years with TBS, serving in various capacities throughout the organization. A CNN original, she was the first director of public relations in 1980, helping to launch the global news network and later assuming the position of CNN marketing manager. In 1981, Grant moved into sales as a regional manager for Turner Cable Network Sales (TCNS) for the Southeast region. She was later promoted to national accounts manager and was ultimately promoted to director of regional sales for TCNS, a position she held until 1985.
Grant currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of Zoo Atlanta and on the managing committee of the board of directors for Literacy Action Inc.
Grant holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College.
| SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CNN NEWS SERVICES & GENERAL MANAGER CNN.COM |
David Payne
David Payne is senior vice president of CNN News Services and general manager of CNN.com. As general manager of CNN.com, Payne oversees all of CNN.com's operations, including business, administration, finance, marketing, product development and editorial operations. In addition, Payne also leads CNN's Content Sales/Business Development team, which is responsible for driving incremental revenue to the CNN News Group generally, and licensing revenue to CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, CNN Radio and Turner Learning, specifically.
Previously, Payne was senior vice president of business operations and development for the CNN News Group, where he oversaw the business endeavors of CNN's domestic networks and Web sites and was responsible for negotiations with CNN's primary vendors and partners.
Payne has been with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. since 1993, serving in a variety of positions, including senior vice president and general manager of CNN/Sports Illustrated Interactive (where he was named to Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal's annual "Forty Under 40" list as one of the 40 most influential sports executives less than 40 years old), vice president of business affairs for Turner Sports, and vice president and team counsel for the Atlanta Braves, Hawks and Thrashers. In these latter capacities, Payne was instrumental in negotiations of Turner Sports television and broadcast talent agreements, and the negotiation of team television, radio and sponsorship agreements. He also was actively involved in the development of Philips Arena and the related acquisition and start-up of the Atlanta Thrashers franchise.
Payne earned a bachelor of arts degree in public policy studies from Duke University, where he graduated cum laude. He also earned a law degree, with honors, from Duke University.
| SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF CNN.COM |
Mitch Gelman
Mitch Gelman is the senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com. Named to this position in January 2001, Gelman is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta.
Previously, Gelman had served as executive editor of CNNSI.com. Before joining CNN in 1999, Gelman was projects editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, overseeing metro investigations and state political and environmental coverage. From 1995 to 1997, he was with Starwave Corp, where he served as editor-in-chief of ESPNET Sports Zone, developing editorial direction and overseeing newsroom operations.
Gelman was a reporter at New York Newsday from 1987 to 1995, covering law enforcement, politics and immigration for the newspaper. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the New York Newsday staff for spot news reporting in 1992. He also has worked as a stringer for TIME Magazine in London and New York.
Gelman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California in Berkeley, and studied at the National University of Singapore.
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