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Adrienne Roark brings together teams across CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures to create content that grows audience reach and impact, industry leadership and organizational effectiveness. She also oversees CBS-owned stations in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, a responsibility she assumed when becoming president of CBS Stations in August 2021.
As president, Roark led the creation and launch of the “Newsroom of the Future” CBS News Detroit, a local news organization that was built from the ground up with a streaming-first mentality, at WWJ-TV in January 2023. She also oversees the CBS Local News Innovation Lab, where CBS News and Stations employees experiment with next-generation storytelling and test new products, workflows and production models.
Roark is a strong proponent of data journalism. She created the data journalism initiative, hired the executive in charge and worked with him to put in place the award-winning team that works across CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures. Understanding the necessity to meet the audiences’ viewership needs, Roark used research-backed data to strategically create and launch multiple “centers of excellence” beats that focus on audiences’ interests: consumer/money watch, transportation, immigration, medical, weather and crime. These teams collaborate with the Innovation Lab and the data journalism team and work across CBS News and Stations, delivering best-in-class reporting.
For her efforts, Roark, a three-time regional Emmy award winner and recipient of six regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, was named a 2024 Wonder Women of New York by Multichannel News.
She began her career at CBS. After graduating from The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications, she took a position at WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus. She moved to stations in Cleveland, Miami, Orlando and Dallas-Fort Worth before becoming general manager of CBS affiliate KOIN-TV in 2014. She served as general manager of Fox affiliate KPTV-TV and MyNetwork station KPDX-TV from 2016 until rejoining CBS in 2021.
Roark is on the National Advisory Board of Poynter, the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s Board of Directors and the Carole Kneeland Project Board of Directors. She has long been active in community organizations – she served as the board chair of the Boys and Girls Club of Portland and held board positions with Sport Oregon, Veterans’ Legacies, the Dougy Center and the Oregon Association of Broadcasters.
Roark and her husband, Dave, are the proud parents of two sons, Alex and Stephen.
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Husband of Russia’s richest woman arrested for murder after deadly shootout at offices of retail giant Wildberries
The estranged husband of Russia’s richest woman and CEO of retail giant Wildberries was arrested Thursday and charged with several crimes including murder, a day after a deadly armed raid at the company’s central Moscow offices.
Billionaire Tatyana Bakalchuk released a tearful message a day earlier, saying her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, whom she is currently divorcing, led an armed raid into the Wildberries offices.
Vladislav Bakalchuk’s lawyers said in a message on his social media page that he was “detained for 48 hours” and charged with murder, attempted murder, assault of a law enforcement officer and vigilantism.
Two people, including a security guard, were killed in the shooting at the offices, which lie a few streets away from the Kremlin.
The incident came weeks after the company finalized a merger deal that Vladislav criticized and that strongman Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov vowed to stop.
Vladislav’s lawyers said he was on his way to a “pre-agreed meeting to settle a corporate conflict.” Vladislav alleges that it was staff at the office who fired the first shots, the Reuters news agency reported.
But Bakalchuk called her husband’s claims “absurd” and said “no one agreed to any negotiations.”
“Vladislav, what are you doing? How are you going to look in the eyes of your parents and our children?”
Wildberries is Russia’s largest online retailer. Tatyana Bakalchuk founded the company in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for countless other products, Reuters reported.
According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index in 2021, she was the 40th richest woman in the world and the first self-made woman billionaire out of Russia.
Tatyana Bakalchuk is the majority oner of the company, while her estranged husband holds a one-percent stake.
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