Christina Capatides

Christina Capatides CBS/Michele Crowe

Christina Capatides is the elder vice president of Social Media and Trending Content for CBS News and Stations. 

In this role, she oversees societal discovery, societal accumulation and societal TV for the network. Her enactment successful trending contented involves the discovery, duty and accumulation of hundreds of articles and videos per period connected Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, CBS News 24/7 and CBSNews.com. She besides oversees the societal media strategy for CBS News, "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings," "Face The Nation," "CBS Sunday Morning," "48 Hours,"  "CBS Saturday Morning" and The Uplift accounts crossed societal media platforms; reenvisioning broadcast journalism for younger and much divers audiences.

She besides oversees the societal strategy for CBS News' 14 owned and operated stations: Baltimore, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento and Texas.

Under her tenure arsenic caput of societal media, CBS News' pursuing connected Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok astir tripled, expanding by 27 cardinal followers. On TikTok, wherever CBS News and its galore amusement brands person accumulated 10 cardinal followers, implicit 70% of the network's followers are nether 44. 

Capatides launched CBS News' 2 large social-first video franchises, "The Uplift" and "Down To Earth," increasing them into palmy award-winning brands. CBS News' bully quality marque "The Uplift," having generated galore billions of views crossed societal platforms, is present a play streaming amusement that brings viewers heartwarming stories of the champion of humanity. "The Uplift" has won aggregate awards for integer journalism, including a Shorty Award for Best Use of Facebook, a Telly Award for Online: Viral, and the Cynopsis Award for Viral Video of the Year. "Down To Earth," which showcased cutting-edge longer signifier reporting from CBS News' overseas correspondents successful the signifier of social-first documentaries, won the 2020 Webby Award for Best Social Video, News & Politics.

In 2022, Capatides won the Webby Award for Best Social Video, News & Politics again. This time, for the YouTube documentary,  "Black Lives Matter Around The World: The Global Impact of George Floyd". 

Most recently, the CBS News Planet Instagram leafage – a societal hub for CBS News and Stations' clime contented – won an Anthem Award for Sustainability, Environment & Climate.

Prior to her existent role, Capatides served arsenic a elder shaper connected CBS Reports documentaries and CBS News streaming specials. Her documentary, "Gender: The Space Between," won a 2018 Telly Award for Social Issues and was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV Journalism - Newsmagazine. 

Capatides joined CBS News successful 2015. Previously, she worked for "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Good Morning America," producing and editing regular quality packages connected the White House, Congress and the Department of Justice, retired of ABC News' Washington, D.C. Bureau.

Capatides holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from New York University.