Tammy Fine Named NBC News VP of Talent Development

Tammy Fine, a veteran producer whose NBC News career began as an intern in 1993, has been named vice president of talent development at NBC News. She starts the role on 1 September. Variety

The appointment was announced in a staff memo from Rebecca Blumenstein, president of NBC News Editorial; Cheryl Rosenbloom, executive vice president of global human resources for the NBCUniversal News Group; and Libby Leist, executive vice president of Today and lifestyle programming. Fine will lead the network's efforts to develop careers and find up-and-coming journalists.

Liza Eaton, who previously ran the talent development function, will shift to a part-time role later this summer and report to Fine. Kristen Powers, who joined NBC News as a talent-development executive earlier this year, will report to both Fine and Catherine Kim, executive vice president of editorial for NBC News.

Fine's path through NBC News is a long one. She arrived as an intern on NBC Nightly News in 1993, working alongside then-anchor Tom Brokaw. She later joined Today, where she rose to senior producer. Along the way she supervised interviews with every living U.S. president, covered the funerals of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, and travelled to Cuba, India, Israel, Hong Kong and Vietnam on assignment.

Beyond the newsroom, Fine has worked at MSNBC and served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching a graduate course on strategic communication in the digital age. As of April 2024 she was listed as an Executive Search and Talent Strategy executive within the NBCUniversal News Group, and she appeared as a panelist at NBCU Academy's Fifth Next Level Summit in a session on leadership interviews. NBCUniversal

For a network that has spent three decades sending crews to presidential interviews and state funerals, the talent pipeline is what keeps those stories staffed. Fine now sits at the top of that pipeline — and she knows it from the ground up, starting with the internship tape she likely never expected to trade for an executive role.