Michael R. Whitney 12806 Schleicher Trail Austin TX 78732 [email protected] 512-266-5956 University of Texas, 2007-current, Adjunct Lecturer Instructor at the School of Journalism in the College of Communication, UT Austin. Courses have included News Media Writing & Editing and Long-form Storytelling for Television News. whitneyproductions inc., 2007-2009, President Founder and head of consulting company that specialized in assisting companies with media issues. 60 Minutes, 2004-2007, Senior Broadcast Producer. Direct responsibility for all show and story production, including control room and budget operations. Part of senior management team that assigns , screens and approves all stories for the CBS News magazine. 60 Minutes II, 1998-2005, Senior Broadcast Producer. Helped create the weekday version of 60 Minutes; duties same as above. CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 1996-1998, Senior Broadcast Producer. Oversaw day-to-day production of CBS News flagship broadcast with direct responsibility for all aspects of story and broadcast production. CBS News Sunday Morning and CBS Weekend News, 1993-1996, Coordinating Producer (1993) and Senior Broadcast Producer. On Sunday Morning supervised anchor transition from Charles Kuralt to Charles Osgood; assigned all stories, oversaw all aspects of story and broadcast production. On Weekend News duties similar to those on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Miami Bureau Chief, CBS News, 1988-1993. Ran news bureau covering Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Southeastern United States, assigning and overseeing stories from those areas for all CBS News daily broadcasts. -MORE- WHITNEY page two CBS Morning News, 1979-80 News Editor, 1981-1982 Producer, 1983-1988, Senior Broadcast Producer. As news editor edited all anchor copy and approved all field scripts for broadcast. As producer produced stories and eventually produced broadcast itself. As Senior Broadcast Producer was responsible for managing staff of more than 50 journalists and technicians, and for ;ll final content and on-air production of broadcast, including putting the two-hour show on the air each morning. CBS News Radio, 1973-79 News Writer (1973-1977), News Editor (1977-79). As writer wrote and produced hourly news broadcasts, special events coverage, and The World Tonight for anchors including Douglas Edwards and Charles Collingwood. As editor supervised same. WOR Radio, 1967-1973 News Writer, News Editor, Broadcast Producer, News Manager. Wrote and produced 15-minute local newscasts, 30-minute week in review summaries, other material; developed and produced afternoon drive-time multi-hour news programs; managed station’s coverage of community news. Marymount Manhattan College, 1972-75, Instructor. Taught newspaper and broadcast writing and reporting, part-time at the New York City college. U.S. Army, 1969-71, instructor, United States Department of Defense Information School. Drafted into the Army; honorable discharge at rank of SP5; developed courses and taught print and broadcast news writing and newspaper production to both enlisted personnel and officers at the joint-command DINFOS, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN. Northwestern University, Acting Director (1967), Instructor (1964-67). During most summers at college was instructor in newspaper writing at Medill School of Journalism’s Summer Institute for high school students; directed program final summer. Daily Northwestern, 1963-66, reporter, assistant managing editor, editor. Worked on school daily newspaper for four years, during senior year as editor. Chicago Tribune, campus stringer, 1965-1966. Covered news at Northwestern University for the Chicago daily. MORE WHITNEY page 3 Democrat and Chronicle, 1963-65, reporter. Worked summers as reporter at Rochester, N.Y., daily newspaper. Started journalism career there as a copy boy in 1960. Awards -Four Peabody Awards for work done on 60 Minutes II, including our breaking of the Abu Ghraib Prison story in Iraq and our coverage of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. -Three Alfred I. duPont Awards for work on 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II, the most recent for a 60 Minutes story "The Mother of All Heists" which aired in 2006. -Two RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, one for work on 60 Minutes II coverage of Pakistan’s black market for weapons of mass destruction, and one for work 60 Minutes II contributed to an award CBS News received for Overall Excellence. -23 National News Emmys from National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, including one as co-executive producer of special coverage on the funeral of Princess Diana, one for work covering hurricanes as Miami Bureau Chief, and most for my work on 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II. -From 1999-2006 I was a News and Documentary Emmy judge. Academic Background BSJ, 1966, awarded with distinction, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston IL. Recipient of Harrington Memorial Award as outstanding broadcast journalism student in graduating class. MSJ, 1967, awarded with distinction, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston IL. Recipient of the Frank Reynolds Fellowship for Graduate Study. Professional Association Society of Professional Journalists, member. -END- .