Almin Karamehmedovic has been named president of ABC News.
Karamehmedovic has overseen the manufacturing and day by day operations of World News Tonight with David Muir since August 2014. He takes over the position of president after Kim Goodwin introduced her plans to retire in Might. Debra OConnell president, News Group and Networks, Disney Leisure, has been working ABC News within the interim.
Since January 2022, Karamehmedovic has additionally overseen information content material growth as his position expanded to senior govt producer from govt producer.
As president, Karamehmedovic will oversee the day-to-day operations of ABC News and lead the groups behind World News Tonight with David Muir, Good Morning America, The View, 20/20, Nightline, ABC News Stay, ABC News Studios and particular occasions protection.
“Almin has devoted his career to ABC News, mastering every role and elevating excellence in journalism by connecting with viewers in a very meaningful and profound way that resonates with them,” OConnell stated. “He is a widely respected, seasoned journalist of the highest order who has worked his way up to senior executive producer of ‘World News Tonight with David Muir,’ earning the trust of colleagues and industry peers along the way. I have no doubt ABC News will reach new heights under his leadership.”
“I approach this role with great respect and humility, not only for the hundreds of colleagues around the world whose tireless contributions fuel the unflinching and unbiased reporting of ABC News but also for the viewers we serve,” stated Karamehmedovic. “Our team represents the best in journalism. We are grateful to have Debra OConnell, who sets the bar for all of us in a meaningful and supportive way that enables us to thrive in a profession we revere and love.”
Earlier than World News Tonight with David Muir, Karamehmedovic was govt producer of Nightline. He additionally govt produced Nightline in primetime for 2 seasons as nicely as a number of ABC primetime hours, 20/20 specials and breaking information particular stories.
He joined ABC News as a contract video editor primarily based in London in 1998 and later turned was one of many first journalists to realize entry to Tora Bora, Afghanistan, the place Osama bin Laden was hiding. In 2003, he embedded with the U.S. Military throughout the invasion of Iraq, and in 2005, he was one of many first journalists to journey to Darfur/Sudan to report on the genocide.
He has additionally lined the warfare in Southern Lebanon and was one of many first to reach in Haiti in 2010 following the devastating earthquake. He returned to Al Anbar in Iraq to doc the battle in opposition to ISIS and traveled to the frontlines of Afghanistan, and has labored on items together with interviewing the survivors of the Holocaust 75 years later; touring to Normandy with American warfare vets and to Madagascar to report on the kids of local weather change.
Karamehmedovic has traveled to greater than 100 nations, and realized to shoot, produce, edit and broadcast from anyplace on the planet. He’s the recipient of the celebrated DuPont Award, as nicely as 16 Emmys, 9 Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Christopher Awards and a Peabody Award.
He graduated from the College of Greenwich in London.
