The CBS Evening News announced the promotions of three staffers this morning. Molly Kordares and Alturo Rhymes will join the newscast’s editorial management team as senior producers, while Chris Mix will take on a new role as the supervising graphics producer, where he’ll help “streamline and optimize our graphics process and look.”
Kordares has worked at CBS News since 2008. She spent 6 years at CBS This Morning, most recently as a supervising producer focused on the 7 a.m. hour, before moving over to the evening newscast.
Rhymes has worked at Evening News since 2011, with assignments that have included Ferguson and Baltimore police protests; the Newtown School shooting; coverage in Cuba when the Obama administration re-opened relations with that country; and Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. More recently, Rhymes was with Jeff Glor in Sutherland Springs, and was also the lead producer in New York for David Begnaud‘s award-winning coverage in Puerto Rico.
Mix joined CBS News in 2008, and has worked on Evening News since 2012, first as a production associate before moving up to associate director in 2014.
Here’s the internal note to staff sent by CBS Evening News ep Mosheh Oinounou:
–Molly officially joins us as a senior producer after having moved up the ranks across the organization over the past decade. She has led major anchor remotes and shoots for this broadcast around the world from Jerusalem to Paris to the California mudslides and most recently in Santa Fe, Texas and Singapore. Before coming to Evening News, she spent six years at CBS This Morning, most recently as a supervising producer focused on the 7am hour and part of the team that garnered several Emmy nominations. She joined CBS News in 2008, incidentally as an intern at the Evening News while getting her master’s degree in journalism at Columbia. Molly brings a great story sense, critical editorial eye and valuable field experience to the senior team.
–Alturo has led and contributed his talents to major stories at the CBS Evening News since he joined the broadcast in 2011. Those assignments included the Ferguson and Baltimore police protests; the Newtown School shooting; coverage in Cuba when the Obama administration re-opened relations with that country; and Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. Most recently, he was with Jeff in Sutherland Springs and was the lead producer in New York for David Begnaud’s Peabody-winning coverage of Puerto Rico. Alturo also won an Emmy for the multi-part feature series he reported with Michelle Miller on the National Guard Challenge Academy. Alturo joined CBS News in 2005, first as a producer-writer at Newspath, then as a producer at the Weekend News for five years. He began his journalism career as a desk assistant at WMAQ in Chicago and later worked for NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. I am excited to bring his incredible writing, mastery in the edit room and in the field, as well as another Chicago Cubs fan into the ‘Fishbowl.’
–Chris started as a production associate at the CBS Evening News in 2012 and was promoted to associate director in 2014. In these roles, he has embraced new technologies across the production and graphics spheres and helped elevate our journalism with outstanding visual elements during day-to-day newsgathering efforts, breaking news and network-wide special events coverage. He joined CBS News in 2008 as a freelance production associate for the Obama-McCain presidential debate at his alma mater, Belmont University. Shortly after that, he moved to New York to continue working as a freelance PA for the CBS Weekend News and expanded his work across multiple broadcasts here, including 48 Hours and 60 Minutes. Before CBS, Chris worked in live theater serving as the associate director of business development at an intellectual property management and acquisition company with productions across the globe .including The Lion King, Jersey Boys, and Wicked.
Please join me in congratulating Molly, Alturo and Chris.
They will help us continue to grow the broadcast, keep up the momentum and make our taped and live segments even more compelling.
Mosh