Laura Ann Sills, DGK vice president of administration, presents Bob Furnad with the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Broadcasting.
His last three years at CNN, Furnad was president of CNN Headline News, CNN Radio, CNN Airport Network and CNN Newsource. He reorganized and re-launched Headline News, creating new work procedures utilizing the latest technologies resulting in lower cost and more resources for news gathering and creating production elements. He retired in January 2001 after 17 years at CNN.
Also, in 2001, Furnad worked on a television news project for the Kuwait government and, as part of Intelligent Media Consultants, worked with executives at the NDTV networks in India. That same year, he joined the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication as a visiting associate professor. He retired from UGA in May 2006.