User:Courtpassant

Court Passant is Executive Director of Interactive at CBS News. His mission: taking CBS News into the digital era -- websites, live breaking news on the Internet, whatever can be dreamed up.

Previously he was Executive Producer of CBS News on Logo - – news for MTV’s 24-hour digital cable network focusing on the LGBT community. You can see Logo on Channel 155 on Time Warner Cable or LOGOonline.com

A few years ago CBS News came to Court and asked him to put together a pitch to provide news for a channel from corporate parent Viacom. It didn’t have a name yet: It was simply known as the “Viacom Gay Channel”. Now it’s Logo.

Court is a veteran of CBS News, working on the overnight broadcast Up to the Minute, and managing CBS Newspath. He is a former Board member and Vice President for Broadcast for the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.

Court also teaches spin classes at the West Side YMCA during his free time.

Court and his partner Joe Vasquez, a kindergarten teacher in the New York City Public Schools have lived at Trafalgar House since November 2003