Joe Peyronnin

Joseph Felix Peyronnin III (born August 3, 1947) was the executive vice president and founder of Telemundo News (1998–2006), the former President of Fox News, overseers of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, and a Trustee of Gracie Square Hospital in New York City. He has also been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1994.

Personal life Joe Peyronnin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Joseph F. Peyronnin, a senior executive in construction and contracting, and a World War II veteran, and Dorothy Hargreaves Peyronnin. The family settled in Deerfield, Illinois, in 1955. He graduated from Deerfield High School, has a Bachelor of Arts in Radio Broadcasting from Columbia College Chicago (1970), and a Masters of Business Administration from Roosevelt University's Walter Heller School of Business (1978). the former President of CBS News and currently President of See It Now Studios at Paramount Global, since 1984. They have one child, Zoe Peyronnin.

CBS Peyronnin began working at WEXI FM (now WCPY), a small Chicago area FM radio station, as a news announcer in the late 60's. He was hired out of college by WBBM-TV CBS Chicago as a desk assistant in their newsroom. He worked his way up to broadcast producer, and won a local Emmy Award. In that role he was the division's number two executive and oversaw all news programming and global newsgathering.

Fox News

Peyronnin was named president of Fox News (1995–1996) by NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch in March 1995. He left Ailes with a core staff of producers and reporters. Al Franken wrote a brief synopsis of this period in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

Telemundo In November 1997 Sony bought a stake in the US-based Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo. Peyronnin was hired in 1998 as a consultant to develop a plan for network and local news. In 1999, he was hired as Executive Vice President of News and Information Programming at Telemundo network. the network's first weekend newscast, Fin De Semana;

Later career Peyronnin became an investor and adviser to digital media companies (exa: VFinity ). He continues to advocate for objective news coverage. As a contributor to the Huffington Post he wrote nearly 400 blog posts, an opinion piece for the New York Times, as a panelist on The Strategy Room on Fox News' streaming channel, and appearing on NPR. In 2008 NYU hired Peyronnin as an adjunct journalism professor.

Awards

October 2022 – The Dean's Award issued by the Walter Heller School of Business of Roosevelt University, associated with outstanding alumni (MBA 1978) 2016–2017 – Teacher of the Year, Hofstra's School of Communication 2002 – Recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Telemundo's news coverage of the 9/11 Terrorist Attack 1994 – Who's Who in America, 43rd edition 1975 – Breaking News Emmy Award WBBM-TV Chicago coverage train accident