Sally Rosen Phillips

VP, Creative

Sally is an Emmy-Award winning CBS News journalist turned nonfiction producer and executive. 

Sally started her career working for CBS News at its Broadcast Center in New York.  She joined CBS during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, assisting the network’s coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions. From there, Sally worked her way up from the CBS News Page Program to a Producer for the network. During her tenure at CBS News, Sally’s pieces aired on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, CBS This Morning, and Face the Nation. 

In 2014, Sally was one of the first TV journalists sent to Boston to cover the Boston Marathon Bombing, where she reported on the terrorist attack’s aftermath and the federal prosecution of the case. Sally was part of the CBS News team to earn a News Emmy for the network’s coverage.  

In 2016, she transitioned from the news business into non-scripted programming and development. With IMG Original Content she helped produce and create distribution strategies around its launching podcast division, and helped to develop The Innocence Files for Netflix.  

In 2018 she moved back to her hometown of Los Angeles and joined Endeavor Content’s nonfiction studio where she helped oversee the development and production of the slate.  Two of the projects that Sally developed premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Giving Voice (winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, acquired by Netflix) and Siempre, Luis (acquired by HBO.)  

From 2020 to 2022, Sally worked as a Senior Producer and Executive for Film45, Pete Berg’s non-scripted production company. She was a Producer on Netflix’s Naomi Osaka series, an Executive Producer on Amazon’s  Chivas: El Rebaño Segrado, as well as a producer on an upcoming documentary directed by Rick Rubin.  

Sally is a member of the International Documentary Association; and a sustaining member of Los Angeles’ KCRW and New Orleans’ WWOZ.