Dan Rosenheim, Source: RTNDA.org
When it comes to Bay area TV news, Dan Rosenheim has been around the block and back and knows local news like the back of his hand.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Dan a couple of times, and he’s always impressed me as a seriously smart man. For the last several years, he’s been Vice President and News Director of CBS 5 KPIX-TV.
Bay area TV news is a hard game. The networks jump on our local stories – especially our dot-booms and busts – as stories of national importance. CBS recently acquired CNET and it’s family of sites, making San Francisco the new home of CBS Interactive.
Although the network owns CBS5 / KPIX, the station must continue to impress. But how?
We ask the man at the helm… listen to the archive here:
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More about Dan from his own bio:
Dan Rosenheim and Dan Rodrigues stop the grilling to pose with President, Ron Longinotti at the CBS 5 / CW 44 Cable 12 employee BBQ, Wed., July 9, 2008.
Dan Rosenheim is news director of KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco.
He was news director at KRON-TV in San Francisco from 1996 to 2000. Rosenheim joined KRON in 1996 from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he had been managing editor since December 1993.
Previously, he was the Chronicle’s city editor from 1987 to 1993, after serving as economics editor from 1985 to 1987.
Rosenheim worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1984 to 1985 as a financial writer. He joined the Tribune from the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was special economics writer and financial writer from 1981 to 1984.
Before that, he was business/labor editor at the Hammond (Indiana) Times from 1978 to 1981, and a general assignment reporter at the Lansing (Illinois) Sun Journal from 1977 to 1978.
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