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Marianna Spicer

Marianna Spicer joined CNN’s News Standards and Practices office in January, 1999, serving as deputy to Executive Vice President Rick Davis.   The office develops and oversees news standards for all CNN news operations, cable, radio and internet. 

Spicer joined CNN in 1994, first as Weekend Supervisor in the Washington, DC bureau.   She was promoted to Senior Producer at the Washington bureau in 1995, supervising story development, editing scripts and working with correspondents, producers and tape editors on daily and long-term stories. 

Prior to joining CNN, Spicer was Executive Producer for the CBS News Sunday morning broadcast, “Face the Nation” from 1990-1994.    She was recruited by CBS from ABC News, where she was producer of “This Week With David Brinkley,” and had also served as a producer for ABC’s “The Health Show.”   Her first network position was with CBS News as an associate producer for “CBS Reports” and “60 Minutes” from 1983-1987.  She also produced and directed an Emmy-award winning news special on US Chief Justice Warren Burger for CBS News, working with the much-honored veteran journalist Bill Moyers.

Spicer started in television news at the ABC affiliate in Washington, DC, WJLA-TV, as a news documentary producer.   Prior to television news, she worked in medical public relations for the University of Maryland. 

She is also occasional visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute, a continuing education center for journalists in St. Petersburg, FL. Spicer-Brooks was a member of the first Poynter Institute Ethics Fellows class in 2003, and has attended or taught various courses there since 2000.