CBS News is attempting to ramp up its podcast production as Megan Marcus was named VP of podcast editorial at Paramount, where she will manage content for CBS News’ slate of podcasts (h/t TV Newser).
In this new position, Marcus will lead the full slate for CBS News podcasts and work on editorial across all Paramount Global Podcasts.
“Megan is a dynamic producer and leader in the podcasting field,” Paramount’s EVP of podcasting and audio, Steve Raizes, said. “She did an incredible job guiding Mobituaries to the top of the podcast charts and is already at work on our current and future slate of CBS News Audio properties.”
Here’s the list of podcast shows that Marcus will oversee in her role at CBS News:
- 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty’s My Life of Crime
- CBS Sunday Morning David Pogue’s Unsung Science
- Major Garrett’s The Takeout
- Jill Schlessinger’s Eye on Money
- Allison Keyes’ Kaleidoscope
- Mike Morell’s Intelligence Matters
- CBS News franchises CBS Sunday Morning
- CBS Mornings
- 48 Hours
- CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell
- 60 Minutes
Marcus was executive producer of audio for CNN, managing podcast shows such as Anderson Cooper’s top-ranked podcast “All There Is with Anderson Cooper.”
Furthermore, she was involved in other shows, leading the production of led the production of “The Axe Files,” “Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction,” “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” “Silence is Not an Option When Diana Met” and “Tug of War with Clarissa Ward.”
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