Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, serves as the energyNOW! ombudsman. This position was established to monitor the program’s editorial charter on an ongoing basis. The ombudsman is authorized to review, investigate, mediate and opine on relevant matters that may be raised by the program’s staff, on-air guests, and TV and online audiences. The ombudsman is also encouraged to disseminate the results of his or her work on the program’s website in an appropriate way.

Heyward is a nationally known news executive and expert on the changing media landscape. He helps media companies transform their businesses to drive growth and revenue in an age of rapid and disruptive evolution.

As a principal in the boutique strategy firm MarketspaceNext LLC, as a senior advisor to Monitor Group, and in his own practice, Heyward Advisory LLC, Heyward works with blue-chip television, newspaper, magazine, and marketing clients to develop new programs, online ventures, and profitable digital strategies. He is also an advisor to early-stage and startup firms.

Heyward was President, CBS News, from January 1996-November 2005. Under Heyward’s leadership, CBS News’s tradition of journalistic quality and integrity was recognized with an extraordinary number of broadcast journalism’s most prestigious awards: 57 News and Documentary Emmys, 13 Peabody, 13 Alfred I. DuPont/Columbia University, six Overseas Press Club and 46 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards. The list of Murrows includes seven for Overall Excellence: four for television—including 2003, 2004 and 2005—and three for radio.

Before his tenure as President, Heyward was executive producer, THE CBS EVENING NEWS (October 1994-January 1996). Heyward was also responsible for developing and launching 48 HOURS, the weekly primetime CBS News series that premiered in January 1988. He has won 12 national Emmy Awards.