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03-17-2011, 05:00 PM
Dominican Republic-born Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews has been promoted to vice president of News at CBS News. The announcement was made earlier this month by David Rhodes, president of CBS News, as reported in Diario Libre. Ciprian is responsible for coordinating all day-to-day news coverage, foreign and domestic. She had served as CBS News foreign editor.

Ciprian is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has coordinated the efforts of overseas bureaus, correspondents and producers. Previously, she held the position of senior broadcast producer for the CBS Evening News (2004-06) and served as the senior producer for CBS News' foreign coverage (2000-04) prior to that. In 1998, she became the deputy bureau chief for CBS News London bureau (1998-2000) and served as senior broadcast producer for CBS News "This Morning" and the CBS Morning News from 1994-98. She came to CBS in October 1993 as senior producer for live segments on "CBS This Morning."

Before joining CBS, Ciprian served as the managing editor of CNN's New York Bureau (1990-93), and as a field producer, assignment manager and assignment editor for CNN (1984-1990). She started her career as a general reporter for the National Public Radio Spanish-language news program, "Enfoque Nacional."

Ciprian was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1981, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College, and graduated from New York University in 1984 with a Master of Arts in journalism.

Currently, Ciprian lives in Montclair, N.J., with her husband. They have two daughters; one is teaching in Atlanta, Ga., with Teach for America, and the other is a junior at Columbia University in New York City.

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