Almin Karamehmedovic Named ‘Nightline’ Exec Producer
Almin Karamehmedovic has been named executive producer of Nightline, ABC News said this morning. Current EP Jeanmarie Condon has been named senior exec producer of content and development for the news division. Both will report to James Goldston, ABC’s SVP News. Condon will develop a range of special projects and series for broadcast, digital and cable, focusing on enterprise reporting and on the division-wide deep-dive journalism she is known for spearheading, ABC president Ben Sherwood said in this morning’s announcement. She will continue to oversee Nightline Primetime.
Karamehmedovic has been senior producer, then senior broadcast producer of Nightline for the past four years. In 2001, he became one of the first journalists to gain access to Tora Bora, Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden was holed up, and in 2003 he embedded with the U.S. Army during the invasion of Iraq and spent much of the next three years there. In 2005, he was one of the first journalists to travel to Darfur/Sudan to report on the genocide there, and in 2006 he covered the war in Southern Lebanon, Sherwood noted.
Karamehmedovic joined the New York Nightline team in 2008. Some of his more memorable pieces include going undercover to investigate the exorcisms of alleged child witches in the Congo; covering the scourge of TB in Sierra Leone; reporting on the drug wars in Mexico; and tracking American pedophiles being permitted to leave the U.S. and abuse children in Asia.
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