WPIX News Names Van Zwieten Sr. Exec. Producer

Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate WPIX has named Sharon van Zwieten senior executive producer for news. In this newly created position, van Zwieten will oversee content for all the station’s newscasts, on all platforms. She joins the station on June 10.

Van Zwieten has held executive positions in news and sports production, in program development and in journalism in both the United States and Asia. She was previously the senior executive producer, news for Univision Deportes in Miami where she created and launched eight programs including Univision Deportes Extra, the flagship show of the network.

Prior to her post at Univision, she was the senior executive producer, news for ESPN Star Sports in Singapore where she launched ESPNews, a 24-hour pan-regional cable network, SportsCenter Malaysia and Score Tonight, a pan-Asian sports show.

She has also held executive level producer positions at CNN (including NewsNight with Aaron Brown, American Morning with Paula Zahn and Daybreak, which she created and launched,) ABC News (ABC News Live) and CNBC Asia.

Van Zwieten has also produced news locally in Chicago (WBBM and WFLD,) Seattle (KING) Kalamazoo, Mich. (WWMT) and Dubuque, Iowa (KDUB).  She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Michigan Daily newspaper.

Van Zwieten holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Master of Arts in journalism from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.