Chris Hulme has been a producer for weekend editions of the CBS EVENING NEWS, focusing on planning and special projects, and a key member of the team working on CBS News’ contingency plans for live coverage of major international news stories, since 2006.

Before that, he was Foreign Editor, CBS News (1999-2006).  In that capacity, he oversaw the non-domestic newsgathering for the Division.

Hulme served as weekend news manager for CBS News (1998-99), coordinating news gathering for all of the Division’s weekend broadcasts.  Before that, he was deputy foreign editor (1992-98), coordinating daily foreign news coverage for the CBS EVENING NEWS and other hard news and magazine broadcasts.  He also occasionally produced reports for various broadcasts.

Previously, Hulme was foreign editor/foreign news producer for ITN in London, where he spearheaded that network’s award-winning coverage of the Gulf War, as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolution in Romania and the Seoul Olympics, among other major events.  He worked extensively as a producer in Northern Ireland during the height of “the troubles” there.  Hulme also started the Tokyo bureau for ITN News Channel Four.  He was national editor/producer (1981-87) and a producer/writer (1976-81) for ITN.

Hulme was a sub-editor for the Birmingham Post (1974-76), the largest newspaper in Britain’s second-largest city, and a reporter for the Evening Post (1970-74) in suburban London.

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.  Hulme and his wife live in Connecticut with their two children.