Ido Einbinder has been appointed Vice President of Corporate Development of the i24NEWS Group, Walla Baranja has learned. Einbinder was on the founding team of the Kaan 11 Public Broadcasting Corporation as head of the human resources department. In 2019, he left Kaan and joined News 13 as Vice President of Human Resources and below, a position which he filled for over two years. For the past three years, Einbinder managed a consulting firm in Los Angeles that specialized in the merger of local television stations and major networks in America.
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As part of his position at i24NEWS, Einbinder will be responsible for organizational development and the connection of the network's channels, including the new channel in Hebrew that is being established these days. i24NEWS has three channels, in three channels: English, French and Arabic, which have been operating since 2013. In recent months, i24NEWS has been working on the launch of the fourth channel, in the Hebrew language, a channel built according to the Israeli audience and will actually be the first news channel in Israel, which will broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The new channel is expected to go on air in the near future, first on HOT's streaming service.
In recent weeks, the channel, which is being built, continues to staff the system, focusing mainly on News 13 personnel. The reason: the channel's CEO Israel Tuito is familiar with the channel's personnel, since in his previous position he served as the CEO of News 13. In addition, news 13 will soon be cut, and the channel is struggling Give counter offers to reporters who receive offers from the new channel.
Among other things, in the last few weeks the channel has staffed the senior editorial board: the program director of Haudas Kaan 11 Nir Keenan joined as the editor of the main edition and Ehad Arbel who last year edited the "Friday" edition on Network 13 as the development manager. In recent days, the channel has also formed the foreign desk in Hebrew: Yana Soriadna will head it, Owen Alterman will serve as the America desk reporter, Cyril Amar as the Europe and Jewish world desk reporter, and Benjamin Petrover will be the i24NEWS reporter in Paris.
Ido Einbinder said: "I am happy to join the i24NEWS family in a challenging time for us as a news channel and for Israeli society in general. I am sure that the combination of the teams' strengths will yield an excellent news product, which will make i24NEWS a significant player in Israel and strengthen the content that the network offers to viewers around the world."
Frank Malol, CEO of i24NEWS: "The success of the new channel in Hebrew will come from the success of the international channels of i24NEWS and vice versa. I am confident in Ido Einbinder's abilities to establish processes in the company that will create harmony and synergy between i24NEWS channels. I wish Ido the best of luck."