Edward F. O’Keefe served most recently as Senior Vice President, Content Development at CNN, and is a media industry expert in mobile, short-form video, OTT and streaming content. O’Keefe’s initiatives at CNN included expanding the network’s podcasts and short-form non-fiction production (which won CNN a Primetime Emmy for Anthony Bourdain: Explore Parts Unknown), and launching CNNVR. He was previously Vice President of CNN Politics. Prior to CNN, O’Keefe served as the founding editor-in-chief of NowThis, and spent twelve years at ABC News. While at the Shorenstein Center, O’Keefe will write a paper that answers the question “Why Isn’t There More Streaming News?”
Streaming War Won
April 29, 2019
Every era and every new medium — print, radio, television, cable, and the Internet — has found news essential to building and keeping audience. What does news on streaming, direct-to-consumer, and social look like — and what it could look like in the future?
