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Jeff Gralnick
Jeff Gralnick
Special Consultant, Internet and New Media Technologies
NBC News
  Jeff Gralnick is currently a new media news and journalism executive, producer and consultant with over 45 years of broadcast and online news experience. He serves as Special Consultant on internet and new media technologies to the President of News at NBC News, and as chairman of the broadcast and new media consulting firm Esplosion Consulting.

Gralnick began his broadcast journalism career at CBS News in 1959 as a field reporter and producer. Following a stint as Senator George McGovern’s press secretary in his campaign for president in 1971, Gralnick joined ABC News in 1972 as a producer and later served as vice president and executive producer for 14 years. During his time at ABC, he won several awards, including a National Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story for coverage of the 1991 Gulf War, and a National Headliners Award for coverage of the 1992 presidential election and political conventions. The following year Gralnick oversaw the re-launch of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and earned another National Emmy Award, the fifth of his career. A pioneer in online news, Gralnick returned to ABC News in 1996 to develop and launch the network’s successful news site.

Gralnick writes extensively on journalism, news and new media issues. He has analyzed the changing demands on broadcast news leadership and management during five decades of broadcast news for publications such as Inside.Com, Electronic Media and Television Week.

A graduate of New York University, Gralnick currently serves on the University of Southern California’s Board of Councilors for the School of Engineering’s Integrated Media Systems Center, and as an adjunct professor of new media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
 
   


 
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