Jerome Nachman
Jerry Nachman has occupied nearly every position a journalist and executive can hold in the fields of print and broadcast news and communications.
In less than a decade he notched the unbeatable record of running three New York City newsrooms as:
News Director of WNBC-TV, the NBC-owned flagship;
Vice President/News of WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned flagship; and
Editor-in-Chief of The New York Post, the feisty, big-city tabloid.
He also served with distinction as a gritty on-air street reporter for both WCBS Radio and WCBS Television in New York, and was a popular columnist for The New York Post before being named that newspaper’’s number one editor. His first management position was as news director at KCBS Radio, a CBS-owned, all-news facility in San Francisco.
In separate assignments he was vice president and general manager of WRC Radio and WRC Television, both NBC-owned properties in Washington, D.C. He also held the post of vice president/news for the NBC-owned television stations division, responsible for oversight of the company’’s newsrooms in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Washington.
He has won the Peabody Award - broadcasting’’s most prestigious honor - as well as the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, as well an Emmy Award.
He served twice as a Pulitzer Prize Juror in the Journalism Award competition.
Now living in Hollywood, Nachman recently sold a treatment to the Walt Disney Pictures Corporation and producer Jerry Bruckheimer of ""Beverly Hills Cop"" fame for both a feature film and a television series titled ""Dump House,"" based on his partly-factual, party-fanciful tale of a Brooklyn police precinct staffed with uniformed misfits.
Since relocating to Los Angeles, Nachman worked as a staff writer on ""Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher"", returning two years later as executive producer, and also co-anchored ""Life and Times Tonight"" on Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET-TV. Nachman co-wrote a short film produced by the American Film Institute that won the 1999 Academy Award in the student film competition.