Rodney Ward
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Rodney is Executive Editor of the Nightly Business Report and Senior Vice President of NBR Enterprises. He has been with Nightly Business Report since its debut in 1979, when it was a 15-minute program broadcast only in Southeast Florida.
Before being promoted into the position he currently holds, Rodney spent 11 years as managing editor of Nightly Business Report. In that capacity, he guided a dedicated news team headquartered in Miami and also operating out of bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Rodney was also directly responsible for leading NBR's regional coverage of Asia. During his tenure as Managing Editor, NBR was recognized with a National Emmy Award as well as numerous other awards for its coverage of business and the economy.
Long-time NBR staffers jokingly remark that Rodney has done every job there is to do at Nightly Business Report. While the statement's not entirely true, Rodney has held many positions at NBR. In addition to serving as managing editor, he has spent time as a producer/reporter, assignment editor, assignment manager, correspondent, and Washington D.C. bureau chief.
Rodney joined the producing station of the program, WPBT2 in Miami, as a producer/reporter in November 1976. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism.
Rodney is married and the proud father of a teenage son.
