Cara Doyle Wright
Multi-Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist.
- Role
- Executive Producer at KMBC 9
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cara Doyle Wright
Currently working as the dayside Executive Producer at KMBC-TV in Kansas City overseeing all newsroom special projects and initiatives. Leader of KMBC 9 Chronicle documentary series. In addition to my current position, my overall experience includes 9 years as a line producer, 2.5 years as an Assistant News Director, and 2 years as a newscast director.
Experience
Executive Producer
Feb 2011 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US
Promoted to Dayside Executive Producer in 2017. Currently in charge of all newsroom special projects and initiatives.Winner, NATAS Mid-America Emmy:2025 - Writer (Short or Long Form Content)2025 - Evening Newscast (Markets 14•••22 -\"Chronicle: The War Within\" 2022 -\"Chronicle: The Skywalk Tapes\"2021 -\"Project Community: The People & The Police\"2019 -\"News Producer\" Craft Award Winner, Regional Edward R. Murrow Award:2023 -\"Chronicle: Race for the River\"2022 -\"Investigative Reporting: Kansas Highway Patrol\"2022 -\"Chronicle: The Skywalk Tapes\"2021 -\"Chronicle: Pioneers. Patriots. Trailblazers.\"2020 -\"Chronicle: Tech N9ne: The King, The Clown and The G\"Winner, Kansas Association of Broadcasters 2022 -\"Tony R. Jewell Community Service Award\" 2024 Graduate, Hearst Television\'s Producer Academy,\"MasterClass\"2021 Graduate, Hearst Leadership Development Program through Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning Raised over during first three years of KMBC 9\'s Cares for Kids initiative benefiting six local organizations Led 12+ member crew during weeklong coverage of Super Bowl in Las Vegas in February 2024, Super Bowl LVII in Phoenix in February 2023, and Super Bowl LIV in Miami in January 2020. Produced the 91st annual Evergy Plaza Lighting Ceremony in November 2020 - the first and only time the event had to be virtual instead of in-person. Ratings for this broadcast were the highest in the event\'s history.Field producer for Monday Night Football coverage of Chiefs-Broncos game in 2018; Chiefs-Packers game in 2015.Promoted from 5PM producer to Executive Producer of KMBC-TV\'s \"First News\" in April 2015. Increased ratings overall and in key demographics during May and July 2015 sweeps to achieve the top-rated morning newscast in the Kansas City market.Honored as KMBC 9\'s \"Employee of the Year\" in 2014.
Education
Bradley University
Communications (Journalism)
1999 — 2003
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