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SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at CNN International at CNN
Location: Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States 7 work roles 2 schools
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CNN
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SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at CNN International
Location
Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States

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Deborah Rayner is listed as SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at CNN International at CNN, based in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at turner.com, phone signal with area code 780, 404, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Deborah Rayner.

Deborah Rayner previously worked as SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at Cnn International and Vice President and Managing Editor Europe, Middle East and Africa at Cnn. Deborah Rayner holds Leadership from Hult Ashridge Executive Education.

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Deborah is SVP of International Newsgathering at CNN. Based in Atlanta, she oversees CNN’s international newsgathering for all platforms.Under Rayner’s leadership, CNN has won many awards for its international coverage including multiple Emmys, 3 George Foster Peabody Awards, 4 Edward R. Murrow Awards, 2 Overseas Press Club Awards, 2 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, 1 George Polk Award and multiple Gracie Awards. Internationally CNN has won several Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards in recent years in the Breaking News category (2020, 2019, 2016) and Scoop of the Year in 2018, three Golden Nymph Awards from the Monte Carlo TV Festival and multiple awards from the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).Appointed to this role in 2014, Rayner restructured newsgathering within CNN and led CNN’s coverage of major international stories including the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise and fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe. She commissions impactful enterprise reporting including exposing modern-day slavery in Libya, the misuse of U.S. weapons in Yemen and in-depth environmental reporting on climate change and plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean.Rayner was previously based in London as CNN’s VP and Managing Editor for EMEA. In that role she was responsible for the network’s operations and staff across the region including programming, features, business, digital and sport as well as newsgathering. During her tenure in London, CNN International was twice named the RTS News Channel of the Year in 2013 and 2014.Rayner joined CNN in 2008 as Director of CNN International Productions and established the award-winning documentary series World’s Untold Stories. She was promoted to Managing Editor of EMEA and London Bureau Chief.Rayner joined CNN from the UK’s Channel 4 News where she was senior foreign editor, overseeing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Israel-Hezbollah war and a run of first live programs from inside Iran with news presenter Jon Snow. She had previously set up the network’s highly successful Independent’s Fund, commissioning and exec producing independent filmmaking across the world with the experience of filmmaking and running an independent production company behind her.For more than three decades Rayner has set an international standard for innovative news coverage and independent filmmaking. As well as her current role as SVP at CNN, she serves a number of organizations including BAFTA, Royal Society of Arts, International News Safety Institute and the Rory Peck Trust.

Listed skills include Broadcast Journalism, Broadcast Television, Broadcast, Television, and 16 others.

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SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at CNN International
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7 roles · 31 years

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Svp International Newsgathering Tv And Digital

Current
Cnn International

Deborah Rayner will move from her role heading up EMEA newsgathering in London to take on the new role of Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering, TV and Digital. Based in Atlanta, the new role will see Rayner broadening her brief across CNN’s international newsgathering including the International Desk, all international correspondents and.

Sep 2014 - Present

Vice President And Managing Editor Europe, Middle East And Africa

Current
Cnn

Atlanta, US

When I asked for my job description I was told 'you run all our operations in EMEA'. That about sums it up really. That's two studios and fourteen bureaux. A huge newsgathering job, with award-winning coverage of Syria, all things arab spring 2.0 and mideast, the Eurozone crisis, big events such as London 2012, royal weddings, elections, papal resignations.

Jun 2011 - Present

Managing Editor, Europe And Africa

Current
Cnni

I went to CNN to oversee their features department, bringing the documentary series Worlds Untold Stories in house and overseeing it's launch.... I was in this job for three months before being promoted to Managing Editor, Europe and Africa which also entailed being London bureau chief... So I launched a few docos, a prime time line up and got to grips.

2008 - Present ~18 yrs 5 mos

Senior Foreign Editor

Channel Four News

Appointed for my work as an independent commissioner of independent films and exec producer, I was honoured to run all foreign news output for Channel Four. I took over at the beginning of the Iraq war, into Afghanistan, via the Israel/Lebanon conflict to name a few. Outsourcing to the best independent film makers around the world to provide indigenous.

2004 - 2008 ~4 yrs

Commissioning Editor Independents

Channel Four

Moving up from Executive Producer, I commissioned from the independent sector globally with a budget provided by Channel Four spotting and developing new talent, providing award-winning content for both domestic and international news and to Channel Four for longer form. The brief included management of two investigative contracts providing over a dozen.

2001 - 2004 ~3 yrs

Executive Producer, Independents Fund

Channel Four For Itn

Recalled from the independent sector where I was happily making docos and providing news content as an indy to C4, CBC, BBC, PBS and others... I was invited to set up a fund for independent film makers by Channel Four's then head of factual programming, David Lloyd. Starting almost from scratch, I sourced, solicited and exec produced independents from.

1999 - 2001 ~2 yrs

Director

Fast Forward Films

Indy production co - current affairs docs and Indy work for CBC, PBS, BBC and C4. Freelance field news production in Balkans, Africa, north America, Mideast

1995 - 1998 ~3 yrs
2 education records

Deborah Rayner education

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Hult Ashridge Executive Education

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Literature

University Of Bristol
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Deborah Rayner is listed as SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital at CNN International at CNN.

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Deborah Rayner is based in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States while working with CNN.

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Deborah Rayner has worked for Cnn International, Cnn, Cnni, Channel Four News, and Channel Four.

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Deborah Rayner holds Leadership from Hult Ashridge Executive Education.

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Deborah Rayner is listed with skills including Broadcast Journalism, Broadcast Television, Broadcast, Television, Journalism, Breaking News, Editorial, and Storytelling.

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