Wes Barrett Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York , Us

• Create and implement strategic direction for global news content fulfillment service, ensuring always-on delivery of live and “taped” content to nearly 200 clients. Localize network content for markets across America.• Exhibit leadership by hiring, nurturing, and empowering a diverse and talented group of approximately 50 employees to ensure consistent, editorially and technically sound service delivery in a customer-centric environment.• Extensive team leadership experience, integrating a diverse team into the complex, multi-divisional, cross-functional structure of Fox News and the broader FOX broadcast Network.• Integrate data driven decision making to determine strategic business and editorial direction. • Collaborate with legal and finance business partners to procure new technology, then lead its integration for business improvement and to ensure uninterrupted delivery of news content to national and global clients.• Envision ways technology can improve and optimize media supply chains to keep the organization forward-looking. Initiate and maintain B2B relationships with transmission and transfer vendors.• Deliver well-reasoned, data-driven and—when required—quick decisions whether in the C-suite, the newsroom, or the control room. Brief and make recommendations to broadcast leaders at the highest levels. • Manage a multi-million-dollar annual budget, ensuring content fulfillment while actively seeking efficiencies and more streamlined content delivery.

New York , Us

• Led a staff of producers (approximately 25 direct reports) to ensure quality content delivery to the network. • Planned and managed the Washington newsroom’s editorial development by researching, writing, and pitching ideas, as well as assigning and guiding correspondents and producers in developing stories to completion. • Pressed alternative viewpoints into the network’s editorial ether. • Provided quality control over editorial content and visual presentation—including regular consultation with producers and editors to improve broadcast and digital content across all channels and platforms.• Developed streamlined internal communication procedures to present concise, accurate information to internal stakeholders as well as external audiences. • Coordinated political events and coverage for the network including conventions, debates, and daily coverage, both editorially and logistically.

New York , Us

• Served as White House pool producer, traveling with the president in Washington and abroad aboard Air Force One to provide a link to the nation's chief executive and commander-in-chief for the five major news networks. Serve as State Department pool producer traveling with the Secretary of State around the world and providing visual and editorial material to the five networks including conducting interviews with the secretary. Network pool producer for State of the Union coverage viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide.• Produced daily news coverage by writing and employing sound and graphics to tell stories and communicate complicated concepts of national and international policy in an easily understood format. • Managed White House coverage for the network from editorial and logistical aspects to facilitate coverage nationally and internationally. • Served as network’s lead producer, leading a team of dozens for 2016 Republican National Convention coverage, general election debate coverage. • Veteran of several presidential campaigns both traveling with candidates and managing correspondents and producers across the nation to ensure high-caliber coverage. • Detailed knowledge of the inner workings of state and national political campaigns and tactics.

New York, Ny, Us

Facilitated news coverage from the nation's capital for 27 newsrooms across the country. Covered The White House, United States Congress, and Supreme Court as well as other Federal Government agencies. Traveled the nation to provide national news stories and election coverage. Contributed ideas to daily newsroom meetings and discussions of current national issues to decide details of daily coverage.

Collaborated with reporters and producers and worked independently to produce high quality news and sports stories for multiple daily newscasts. Developed contacts and story ideas. Worked independently to shoot, write, and edit stories for multiple daily newscasts. Provided live, on-camera reports from the field as needed for news, weather, and sports coverage.