Rick Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox Television, and MSNBC.
17 Facts About Rick Kaplan
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Rick Kaplan started his broadcast journalism career at CBS's WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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Rick Kaplan worked for CBS until 1979, when he moved to ABC.
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Rick Kaplan became Senior Vice-President of ABC News in 2003 and was named President of MSNBC in February 2004.
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Rick Kaplan graduated in 1971 from the University of Illinois, where he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
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Rick Kaplan's broadcast journalism career began at CBS News, where he was an associate producer for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite from 1974 to 1979, and an associate producer for the CBS Morning News from 1971 to 1974.
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Rick Kaplan was a writer, assignment desk editor, and producer at WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station in Chicago, from 1969 to 1971.
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Rick Kaplan joined ABC News in 1979 as a senior producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
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From 1979 to 1997, Rick Kaplan held a variety of positions at ABC News and the ABC Television Network.
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In January 1994, Rick Kaplan became executive producer of World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and was responsible for the direction and overall editorial content of the news program.
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Rick Kaplan repeatedly clashed with CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and was presumed responsible for his abrupt departure from the network in 1999.
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Dobbs was countermanded by Rick Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech.
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In June 2003, Rick Kaplan was named senior vice president of ABC News.
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Rick Kaplan was named executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in March 2007.
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In May 2011, Rick Kaplan was named executive producer of ABC News' This Week With Christiane Amanpour and put in charge of political coverage, including the 2012 election coverage and specials.
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In 1999, Rick Kaplan received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Illinois, his alma mater.
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Rick Kaplan teaches various journalism classes and has taught and lectured at universities across the country, including Duke University, Columbia University, Cornell, Wellesley, Boston College, Columbia College, USC, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.