Julius Suber

Current

• Sole Proprietor at Julius Suber

Past

• Chairman at Atlanta Fulton Public Library Board of Trustees
• Board Member at Kids Voting USA
• Executive Producer CNN Student News at CNN

• Senior Vice President News Features at CNN
• Executive Producer Week In Review at CNN

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Education

• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Pikes Peak Community College
• Kent State University

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Industry

Media Production

Julius Suber’s Summary

Journalist who understands and values policy, protocol and strategic communications process development.
Immediate goals, publish manuscript, start 2nd book and increase blog readership at www.juliussuber.com/blog, by a handful.

Julius Suber’s Specialties:

Capable of increasing broadcast media market share

Julius Suber’s Experience

• Sole Proprietor

  Julius Suber

  (Media Production industry)

  January 1998 — Present (11 years 11 months)

  Over twenty years of hands-on experience in the capacity of Chairman, News and Documentary Media Consultant, Writer, Producer and Peabody Award winning Senior Television News Executive in broadcast journalism. My key strengths are News, Documentary Communications and Media Development, Media Literacy and Public Civic Relations,Television Production and 35mm Photography.

• Chairman

  Atlanta Fulton Public Library Board of Trustees

  (Government Relations industry)

  June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System that included the internationally renowned Auburn Research Library (ARL) on Civil Rights; lead meetings of an 11-member board and Executive Director in approving policy and implementing strategic facility plans for the library system (comprised of 34 branches with over 400 staff, 2.3 million holdings and approximately a half a million patrons) and overseeing a 34-million-dollar annual budget.
  
  Established and executed agenda under Robert Rules of Order.
  Appointed Constitution and By-laws, nominations and evaluation Committees.
  Contributed to development of acquisitions directive for ARL.
  Met one on one with Executive Director and board members as needed.
  Positioned library service system as second to none.

• Board Member

  Kids Voting USA

  (Media Production industry)

  1991 — 2005 (14 years )

  Board Member mission to guide and preserve the democratic process by providing resources for teaching in classrooms and conducting first field experiences of the power and meaning of voting for millions of students k-12 at polling precincts. Helped formulate public awareness campaign. I and others participated in direct outreach to members of Congress for funding, successfully to the tune of $2-million. Personally wrote the published John S. and James L. Knights Foundation 50th Anniversary Annual Report overview of the KVUSA project.

• Executive Producer CNN Student News

  CNN

  (Public Company; TWX; Broadcast Media industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Creator/Developer and Executive Producer (1989-1998, 2000-2002)
  Creator/Developer of CNN Newsroom (CNN Student News), daily program (with teaching guide) that positioned CNN in 30-thousand middle and high school classrooms in the United States. As Creator/Developer, guided the program brand, which was the centerpiece of TBS’s government affairs outreach and the cornerstone of Cable in the Classroom Initiatives, and earned the George Foster Peabody award for coverage and comprehensive study guide materials of the 1991 Soviet Coup. In 2001, as Executive Producer, helmed CNN’s Emmy Award coverage of the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks and aftermath and launched online counterpart CNN Student News.

• Senior Vice President News Features

  CNN

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Broadcast Media industry)

  January 1991 — January 1998 (7 years 1 month)

  Senior Vice President/Executive Producer for Cable News Network (CNN) the first 24-hour broadcast television news channel with unparalleled coverage, reaching 2 billion people in more than 200 countries and territories. Lead ten award-winning production units consisting of 75 staff members responsible for the development of new innovative documentary specials and other target marketing programs, which garners multi-million dollar revenue streams for the Company. Direct report EVP, Vice Chairman, President/Chairman.

• Executive Producer Week In Review

  CNN

  (Media Production industry)

  1986 — 1991 (5 years )

  Effected positive turnaround of “Week in Review” international affairs program.
  Evaluated and determined program concept was journalistically solid and developed new look and format, which was successfully marketed to major advertisers such as General Electric, Paine Webber and Delta Airlines.
  The award-winning program reviewed life-impacting stories such as:
  • Lech Walesa and Poland’s Solidarity Movement
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • The Release of Nelson Mandela
  • China’s Tiananmen Square uprising
  • Region In Turmoil/A critical look at the players in Middle East Conflict
  • The Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm
  • The Dismantling of the Soviet Union
  Established first weekly international Art coverage.

Julius Suber’s Education

• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

  Bachelor , International Politics, Social Stratification, Hist. of Far East, Metaphysics & Epistemology , 1975 — 1976

• Pikes Peak Community College

  Probability and Statistics, Economic Geography, China Past and Present, Contemp Polit Ideology 1973 — 1975

• Kent State University

  Analytical Geometry and Calculus, Education Psychology, Military Science, American National Gov't 1966 — 1968

  Activities and Societies:

  Treasurer Kent State Student Government

Additional Information

Julius Suber’s Groups:

Atlanta Press Club

•    Society of Professional Journalists

Julius Suber’s Honors:

George Foster Peabody Award for CNN/Turner Multimedia Coverage of the Soviet Union “Coup D’Etat”(1991);
National Association of Minorities in the Cable (NAMIC) Hall of Fame (1994);
Cine Golden Eagle Award For a Special Presentation On Child Abuse (1995);
News and Documentary Emmy Award for CNN’s Coverage of the Olympic Park Bombing (1996);
International Film & Television Festival of NY – World Medal—“Jason’s Journal, Israel”/Best in Secondary Education Programming (2001).

Julius Suber’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals