Journalist, television and film producer, and media executive Andrew Lack is a 16-time Emmy award recipient and four-time Peabody award winner. During his 15-year leadership as chairman and CEO, NBC News became the most-watched news organization in the world. Andy is currently the creator and senior executive producer of Breaking the Deadlock, a six-hour special series airing on the American Public Broadcasting Service. He is also executive chairman and founder of digital-first local investigative news organization Mississippi Today, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 and has since expanded into Deep South Today, a network of nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsrooms in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.Lack served as the first CEO and director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, overseeing Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, and was CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group and chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment between 2003 and 2015. In 1996, he co-founded MSNBC, a groundbreaking cable news and digital partnership between Microsoft and NBC. He began his career at CBS News as a producer for 60 Minutes and long-form CBS Reports specials and documentaries.