Pamela Steffey is Director of Programming for CNNUS Weekends, where she oversees more than 25 hours of news each week across linear, streaming, and digital platforms.

Since stepping into the role in 2024, she has led coverage of some of CNN’s most consequential global events, including the 2024 Israel-Gaza conflict, contributing to the network’s National Emmy Award for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, the U.S. War with Iran and U.S strikes on Venezuela and subsequent capture of Nicolas Maduro. Steffey helps drive editorial vision for shows working with multiple executive producers and anchors across various dayparts and has built integrated breaking news workflows across CNN, CNN.com, and social platforms, leveraging real-time analytics to expand audience reach and accelerate editorial decision-making.

Steffey joined CNN in 2009 and has spent her career helping shape the network’s coverage of major global and domestic events. As Executive Producer of CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield, she led hundreds of hours of live breaking news coverage, from mass casualty events to presidential election cycles in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Her work contributed to CNN’s Peabody Award–winning coverage of both the Arab Spring and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Previously, Steffey served as Deputy Director of CNNUS Weekend Programming, where she advanced multi-platform content strategy across streaming, web, and mobile. She has worked closely with product, technology, and growth teams to develop audience engagement strategies that extend CNN’s reach beyond linear television.

Before joining CNN, Steffey launched The Climate Code and Forecast Earth at The Weather Channel, a documentary series focused on climate change. She also held leadership roles at CBS News in Boston and ABC in Detroit, where she helped drive ratings growth and earned multiple Emmy awards for breaking news and political coverage.

Steffey holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications from Western Michigan University and a certificate in Expository Writing from Harvard University. She is currently pursuing an MBA at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.