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Les Kretman, Newsroom editor

Les Kretman, COM '63, recently retired as a producer at NBC News in Washington. Most recently, he was assigned to the White House where he coordinated the network's coverage there for nine years. He also covered the Presidential campaign in 2004 and has traveled extensively with the White House press corps.  Prior to that he was the bureau's deputy bureau chief, and spent time as an NBC producer overseas based in Germany. Before joining NBC News, Kretman worked in Boston as an executive producer at WHDH-TV, WCVB-TV and as assistant news director at WBZ-TV.

Kretman has won a national Emmy for NBC's coverage of Ronald Reagan's funeral; was nominated for an Emmy for NBC 9-11 coverage, and has just been nominated again for NBC's 2008 Election Night Coverage. His wife Kathy Kretman is the Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. They have two sons, one who just graduated from Michigan with a degree in political science and the other who received a law degree in May from Stanford.