Veteran ABC News Director Roger Goodman to Expand His Production Company
Will remain a consultant to ABC News while pursuing outside opportunities.
April 27, 2009 — -- Veteran ABC News director Roger Goodman is changing his full-time status at the news division to pursue additional opportunities outside the company, ABC News President David Westin announced today.
Beginning May 1, Goodman will focus his efforts on his own production company and continue to serve as a consultant to ABC News.
In an e-mail to the news division, Westin wrote: "Roger's profound effect on television news and sports cannot be overstated. He has directed every kind of special event imaginable from the millennium to war coverage and from election nights to the Olympics. He has pioneered the use of new technology through live programming from nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers and, most recently, an 11-car rolling Amtrak train.
Westin continued, "Roger's enthusiasm, creativity, and attention to detail are legendary. We are fortunate that he will remain very much a part of ABC News for many years to come and wish him all the best as he opens a new chapter in his life."
Goodman said, "This has been the most unbelievable ride imaginable. If someone told me 45 years ago that I would be given the opportunity to direct the millennium, the Olympics and the Oscars I wouldn't believe it were possible. And yet here I am, all these years later, with those experiences and many more to be thankful for."
Goodman's career spans four decades in news, sports and entertainment -- creating, producing and directing live events on and off the air.
Since 1998, Goodman has served as vice president of special projects for the ABC television network, where he created, produced, and directed special programming.
For ABC News, Goodman developed and executed the creative design and direction of ABC's political coverage of presidential conventions, debates, elections and inaugurations, a responsibility he has had since 1981.
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