Meet the team

Rome also helps to co-ordinate the BBC's online news strategy stateside

Rome Hartman is executive producer of BBC World News America, the BBC's first US facing nightly newscast.

He is also responsible for advising and coordinating production for other US based and US facing newscasts for BBC America and BBC World News.

Hartman joined the BBC from CBS News where, from November 2005 through March 2007, he was executive producer of The CBS Evening News and oversaw the launch of The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

Prior to joining that programme, Hartman was an award-winning and prolific producer on 60 Minutes where he produced more than 100 reports. Hartman also served as the senior producer responsible for 60 Minutes II from January to early September 2005.

Before his 60 Minutes tenure, Hartman was the senior producer for the CBS Evening News in Washington, D.C. (1989-91) and CBS News' White House producer (1986-89). He first joined CBS News in 1983 as a field producer in the Atlanta bureau.

Hartman was born in West Palm Beach. He graduated from Duke University in 1977 with a degree in political science. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife. They have two sons.