NEW YORK (AP) — ABC has appointed Kim Godwin as its news division president, making her the first Black woman to serve as the top news executive at a network news division. She’s been second-in-command at CBS News, which learned Wednesday that its own news division president, Susan Zirinsky, will be stepping down. Besides working at CBS News, Godwin has run local news operations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Cleveland. She takes over a division where the top two broadcasts, “World News Tonight” and “Good Morning America,” lead in the ratings. At CBS, Zirinsky will relinquish power but promised to remain at the network, where she has been a longtime producer of news content.
