Jeff Zucker

Jeffrey Adam Zucker (born April 9, 1965) is an American media executive. He previously served as president and CEO of NBC Universal. Zucker served as an executive in residence at Columbia Business School. In November 2012, Zucker was picked to take over as the president of CNN Worldwide in January 2013 after Jim Walton's tenure. Zucker oversees CNN, CNN International, HLN, and CNN Digital. 2Early life and education Zucker was born into a Jewish family in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. His father, Matthew, was a cardiologist, and his mother, Arline, was a school teacher.He was a captain of the North Miami Senior High School tennis team, editor of the school paper, and a teenage freelance reporter ("stringer") for The Miami Herald. The 5-foot-6-inch (1.68 m) Zucker also was president of his sophomore, junior, and senior classes, running on the slogan: "The little man with the big ideas." He graduated from North Miami Senior High School in 1982. Before college, he took part in Northwestern University's National High School Institute program for journalism. Zucker went on to Harvard Universit