Rome Hartman

Rome J. Hartman is an award-winning broadcast journalist and producer, currently working for the BBC. He was named a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum in 2007.

Mr. Hartman is Executive Producer at BBC World News with overall responsibilities for shaping its coverage of U.S.-based news, and charged in particular with a new Washington-based hour-long nightly newscast to be carried on BBC AMERICA and the global BBC World News channel.

Before joining the BBC, he worked for nearly twenty-five years with CBS News, where he served most recently as executive producer for the CBS Evening News from November 29, 2005 through March 7, 2007. Hartman has received two Emmy Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and a Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism.

He joined the staff of 60 Minutes in 1991 and produced more than 100 reports for the program, a figure reached by only four other producers in its history. The datelines of his 60 Minutes assignments included Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Africa, Greece, India, and Latin America, as well as cities and towns across the United States.

Before his 60 Minutes tenure, Hartman was the senior producer for the CBS Evening News in Washington, D.C., supervising the broadcast’s coverage of politics and Washington events. Prior to that, he was CBS News’ White House producer, covering Ronald Reagan’s second term and the first year of the George H.W. Bush presidency. Hartman joined CBS News in 1983 as a field producer in the Atlanta bureau, covering events throughout the South and Latin America. Earlier in his career he worked for newscasts at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., WTVJ-TV in Miami, and WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Born in West Palm Beach, Hartman graduated from Duke University in 1977 with a degree in political science. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and two sons.