Calvin Sims

Former Executive Vice President of Standards and Practices CNN

Member of Consumer Reports’ Board of Directors since 2017. Mr. Sims was the Executive Vice President of Standards and Practices at CNN from September 2020 to January 2023. Before joining CNN, he served as President and CEO of International House from 2013, and as Program Officer for the Ford Foundation from 2007, focusing on the development of a free and responsible press worldwide. His work helped foster new and innovative models of reporting, disseminating and financing news, with a concentration on social justice issues, diversity of voices, standards and ethics, and press freedoms. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Mr. Sims spent 20 years at The New York Times, where he was a director, producer and foreign correspondent and played a central role in the newspaper’s expansion into television, documentaries and the Web. He anchored the Times’ nightly television news program, hosted a weekly podcast on foreign affairs and produced an acclaimed documentary for PBS on the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia. As a foreign correspondent, Mr. Sims was based in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Seoul and Jakarta. A native of California, Mr. Sims is a 1985 graduate of Yale University and has held the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Ferris Professorship of Journalism at Princeton University. Mr. Sims is a Trustee of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund and the National Book Foundation, which administers the National Book Awards. Additionally, he is a Board member of the Asia Foundation, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, and the GroundTruth Project/Report for America.