about.
I’m Deanna Fry (Dean-nuh), a Peabody and National Emmy® Award-winning television news producer with more than 20 years of experience shaping journalism across broadcast, streaming, and digital platforms.
Throughout my career, I’ve helped lead coverage of some of the biggest stories in the country, from presidential elections and political showdowns to breaking news and defining cultural moments. I’ve built and led teams, run control rooms, developed new programming, shaped complex editorial coverage, and helped turn ambitious ideas into television.
My work has taken me across CNN, CBS News, BET, and local newsrooms, with a career grounded in sharp editorial judgment, thoughtful storytelling, and the belief that great journalism should help people better understand the world around them.
At CBS News, I served as Senior Producer for the Race & Culture Unit and as Showrunner and Senior Broadcast Producer of *America in Black* on BET, which I co-created and led through two award-winning seasons. I also worked with CBS News Standards & Practices and previously served as Supervising Producer for *Face the Nation*, helping lead live political coverage from the control room while managing producers, editors, and rapidly evolving stories.
Today, I continue that work at CNN, producing national news programming in one of the fastest-moving editorial environments in television.
After more than two decades inside newsrooms, I’m also thinking deeply about where media goes next. The way people discover information, build audiences, and create journalism is changing rapidly. I’m especially interested in the infrastructure, technology, and ideas that can help journalists and independent creators do their best work in that new landscape.
I thrive where editorial ambition, leadership, innovation, and execution meet. Whether I’m building a show, leading a team through breaking news, developing a new idea, or helping shape what comes next for media, I’m drawn to work that is smart, consequential, and built to last.
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