Jackie Adams
Success and Significance
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| Adams Photo Courtesy Business Wire |
For more than twenty years, Jacqueline J. Adams reported on important people, issues, and events as a correspondent for CBS News.
A Boston native, Adams began her career in her hometown in 1972 as a reporter for Channel 7. She opted to attend HBS as a hedge against the fickleness of the job market. After graduation, Adams signed on with the CBS station in Chicago before joining the network’s Washington bureau, covering Congress, presidential campaigns, and the White House, while becoming a familiar face on the CBS Evening News. When she moved to New York a decade later, Adams also worked on feature stories, including a 48 Hours program on a child’s mysterious disappearance in New Mexico that won her an Emmy.
Twenty-five years ago, the network TV landscape was about as tranquil as a Norman Rockwell painting. Explains Adams, “NBC and ABC were our only competitors, and all three organizations saw news as a public trust. But by the mid-1980s, the networks had become divisions of large corporations, and profitability and entertainment value took center stage.” She notes that the advent of CNN and 24-hour news cycles also changed the nature of network news.
Now interested in “moving from success to significance,” Adams says, “I’m working in the nonprofit sector as a consultant to create wealth for minority communities as well as bring together companies and individuals to turn the dream of a fully integrated executive community into a reality.”
— JEA
