Here’s the first Black woman president of CBS’s news division

By  FARIDA DAWKINS via https://face2faceafrica.com

Kimberly Godwin is the Emmy Award-winning television news and broadcasting maven you may not have heard of – until now.

Born in Panama City, Florida, she is the first African-American woman to become the vice president of news at CBS while simultaneously holding the position of senior broadcasting producer of CBS Evening News since 2004. She is also the executive director for development and diversity.

Ironically, Godwin wasn’t interested in a career in journalism.  “I was not one of those kids who grew up watching the news, wanting to do that,” she recalled to Black Enterprise.  After Margarita Pool, a news producer at CBS came to her school’s career fair, Godwin ditched her plans of going to pre-medical school. “I asked her if I could visit her at work and, watching her, I could not believe there was an African American female in charge of stuff! I thought, ‘I want to do that,” Godwin explained.

Godwin then volunteered under the wing of her college professor Phil Keirstead  – a producer for a local ABC newscast. “I started talking my way into doing things—ghost rundowns, then rundowns. I …

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