EVP of Information Editorial for NBCU Native Kevin Keeshan is retiring after 47 years in native information.
“Kevin and I’ve labored collectively a very long time. We first met in 1998 at KFSN in Fresno, the place he was a first-time information director, and I used to be a first-time common supervisor,” Chairman of NBCUniversal Native Valari Staab wrote in an electronic mail informing employees of the transfer. “After a short interruption, we reunited at KGO in San Francisco after which right here at NBCU. It has been an actual privilege to be his colleague the final 27 years.”
Staab stated Keeshan is a “true skilled who has made an enduring impression on native journalism all through his extraordinary profession.”
He joined NBCU in 2012 and is credited with main the institution of the Client Investigative Middle and NBC Responds / Telemundo Responde in 2014.
Staab additionally stated Keeshan was a part of an initiative that delivered “essentially the most superior instruments, coaching and sources” to the native stations’ climate groups, together with one of many nation’s largest privately owned radar networks.
In retirement, Keeshan plans to proceed to work as a member of the American Pink Cross Catastrophe Motion Group in New York, which responds to fires and different emergencies to offer rapid aid to these affected. He may even be deployed nationally within the occasion of main disasters. He may even be a part of the board of Client Motion, a nonprofit group that helps client rights and insurance policies that promote equity and monetary prosperity for low-income and Spanish-speaking neighborhood members nationwide.
