With an eye toward improving streaming, CBS News has made several leadership appointments.
At the same time, there are new leaders in place at CBS Newspath, the CBS News-affiliated affiliate newsgathering service.
At CBS News, Anthony Galloway is the new SVP of CBS News Streaming; Kaci Sokoloff becomes VP of Bookings for CBS News Network and Streaming; and David Reiter has been appointed Executive producer of CBS News special events across Network and Streaming.
“As we unify our organization, we’re delighted to bring together a team who will accelerate our streaming ambitions,” said Neeraj Khemlani, President and co-head of CBS News and Stations. “Anthony, Kaci and David will bolster our coverage of top news events on every platform and help us achieve a vision of a truly multiplatform, global news division.”
Concurrently, CBS News and Stations has named Joel Goldberg as GM of CBS Newspath, where he will oversee the day-to-day operations of the affiliate newsgathering service that provides content to more than 200 local television stations across the country. Goldberg will also continue to serve in his longtime role as senior vice president of operations for CBS Stations.
Additionally, veteran journalist and newsroom executive Maura McHugh has been named news director of CBS Newspath.
Goldberg has spent his entire career working in local television, and has served as senior vice president of operations for CBS Stations since 2012. In this role, he is responsible for working with the local management teams at 27 ViacomCBS-owned stations across the country on a wide range of areas, including studio and control room operations, labor relations, standards and practices, new business initiatives, and special projects. In addition, he serves as the station group’s programming liaison with the management teams at the CBS Television Network, CBS Entertainment and CBS Sports.
Previously, Goldberg was senior vice president of operations at WCBS-TV in New York.
Prior to joining CBS, Goldberg spent 19 years with NBC, including nine years at WNBC-TV in New York from 1993-2002. He served as WNBC’s executive producer of sports, morning news and evening news prior to being named assistant news director in 2000. Goldberg started with NBC at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where he was the station’s executive sports producer and served as the producer of the “George Michael SportsMachine,” a nationally syndicated sports highlights show.
A 30-year CBS veteran, McHugh has most recently served as the interim head of CBS Newspath since July 2021. In 2005, McHugh was named senior producer at CBS Newspath and helped to lead the service and its team in covering some of the country’s biggest stories, including Hurricane Sandy, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and four presidential elections. She joined WCBS-TV in New York as a writer/producer in 1992. She rose through the ranks at WCBS to eventually serve as executive producer of the station’s 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM news.
McHugh started her career in local news at WSVN-7 in Miami.
