Veteran local news executive Mike Dello Stritto has been named vice president and news director at CBS News and Stations’ local businesses in Los Angeles, including KCBS (CBS2), KCAL (independent), the CBS News Los Angeles streaming channel and
CBSLA.com.
Dello Stritto is assuming his new role after having served as the news director at CBS News and Stations’ Sacramento duopoly KOVR-KMAX, CBS News Sacramento and
CBSSacramento.com, since 2018.
Dello Stritto has spent nearly 13 years of his local news career with CBS Stations, beginning in 2006 when he worked for three-and-a-half years as reporter at KOVR in Sacramento. In 2009, he made the transition to news department management by becoming the managing editor at KOVR and KMAX. He was promoted to assistant news director at the stations in 2012. After that, he spent nearly two years as the managing editor at KPIX, the CBS-owned station in San Francisco, prior to returning to Sacramento as the news director at KOVR-KMAX.