Greg Ahlquist

Background

About Greg Ahlquist

I’m a highly accomplished LIVE News Control Room DIrector, Senior News Media Operations and Production Executive with expertise across all facets of TV news—both inside and outside the control room —from directing major productions through managing flawless day-to-day operations in a live television news environment. I thrive on the fast-paced, ever changing environment of TV news and provide a highly unique perspective and hands-on background. By merging creativity and directorial vision with solid technical control room capabilities I have built a reputation of delivering strong and sustained contributions to production excellence, workflow efficiency, and cost effectiveness. My key leadership talents including providing inspiration to my teams, intuitively putting the right people in the right place, and providing an effective balance of mentoring and autonomy to create cultures of high morale, engagement and retention. Throughout my career I have built a reputation for seamlessly integrating production and new media, and for leading innovation and efficiencies that delivered stakeholder value including: • I was instrumental in driving success of FOX News from the ground up to #1 status. • I’m a transformational leader who effectively managed change in the converging environments of digital and traditional broadcast media. I seamlessly managed one of the first full end-to-end integrations of a file based digital newsroom system for a major US Television News Network. • I am a decisive, fair, and action-oriented manager with a proven ability to integrate a big-picture perspective with the tactical actions to accomplish challenging projects within budget and on-time delivery in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. I offer vast experience in Directing, Digital Newsroom, Digital Asset Management Workflow, Technical & Engineering Operations, Media Operations and Media Asset Management (MAM)