August 2005

ANDREW HEYWARD

(President, CBS News)

Andrew Heyward has been President, CBS News, since January 1996. That tenure is the second longest of any president in the nearly 50-year history of CBS News.*

During that time, CBS News programming has grown significantly in audience, regularly scheduled hours and profitability. Under Heyward's leadership, the Division's tradition of journalistic quality and integrity has been recognized with an extraordinary number of broadcast journalism's most prestigious awards: 57 News and Documentary Emmys, 13 Peabody, 13 Alfred I. duPont/Columbia University, six Overseas Press Club and 46 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards. The list of Murrows includes seven for Overall Excellence: four for television -- including the past three, awarded in 2003, 2004 and 2005 -- and three for radio.

Since Heyward was named president, CBS News' weekday morning broadcast was re-launched as THE EARLY SHOW in a state-of-the-art, street-level studio on Fifth Avenue in New York City and enjoyed its highest audience and demographic levels in six years; the two-hour SATURDAY EARLY SHOW, which gave the News Division an important presence in a new daypart, was added to the Network's schedule; the flagship CBS EVENING NEWS was heralded for its rededication to hard-news coverage; and FACE THE NATION and CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING experienced significant audience and demographic growth. "60 Minutes II," a weekday edition of the Sunday tradition, debuted in 1999, and, during its seven-year run, was consistently acclaimed for its first-rate journalism, winning dozens of awards.

Also under Heyward's leadership, CBS Radio News was aggressively improved and, in the process, won three RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence Awards. Newspath, the world's largest satellite newsgathering system and 24-hour news service of CBS News, launched Newspath, now, a cutting-edge advanced digital news-delivery system designed to meet the needs of local news producers and foreign clients. CBS News, along with ABC News and Fox News, created Network News Service, an unprecedented domestic news cooperative designed to provide a more comprehensive service to affiliate news departments. CBS News not only began producing news for other units of Viacom, including MTVU, the college cable channel of MTV, but its CBS News Productions unit continues to grow as a production company that creates a diverse mix of nonfiction and reality programming for domestic and international markets, including network and cable television, home video, DVD, audio books and in-flight, as well as schools and libraries.

Heyward also spearheaded the Division's move into new media. Its award-winning Web site, CBSNews.com, has become increasingly competitive and a leader in providing free, advertiser-supported broadband video and, in 2005, underwent a major expansion in conjunction with the newly created CBS Digital Media group. Heyward also was a key force in the establishment of the leading financial news Web site, CBS MarketWatch, and served on its board of directors from its founding in 1997 to its acquisition by Dow Jones in January 2005.

Heyward is also an award-winning producer and executive producer. He has won 12 national Emmy Awards in his career.

Before his promotion to president, Heyward was executive producer, CBS EVENING NEWS, and Vice President, CBS News (October 1994-January 1996).

Prior to that, he was executive producer of the CBS News magazine "Eye to Eye" (February 1993-October 1994). He was also responsible for developing and launching 48 HOURS, the primetime CBS News hour that premiered in January 1988. Under his leadership as executive producer, 48 HOURS achieved critical acclaim and wide recognition for its innovative style of reporting. The broadcast, which will begin its 19th season in Fall 2005, has won such honors as a George Foster Peabody Award, two Ohio State Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award and an Edward R. Murrow Brotherhood Award.

He was senior broadcast producer of the CBS EVENING NEWS (May 1986-October 1987). Prior to that, he was a senior producer (1984-86), having joined the broadcast as a field producer in March 1981.

Heyward was executive producer of "The Six O'Clock Report," the evening news broadcast on WCBS-TV, the CBS Owned television station in New York (1978-81). Earlier, as producer of the broadcast, he won a local Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Program category. He joined the station in 1976 as a news writer.

Heyward was born in New York. He was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1972 with a bachelor of arts in history and literature and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He and his wife, Jody Gaylin, live in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. They have three children.

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*Richard Salant ranks first in tenure of CBS News presidents, having served as president from February 1961 to March 1964, then as acting president from February-April 1966 and again as president from April 1966 to March 1979.