Shelby Coffey Senior Fellow & Trustee, Newseum Shelby Coffey III is currently a senior fellow of the Freedom Forum and trustee at the Newseum. He was president of CNN Business News and CNNfn, the financial network, from 1999 to 2001. Previously he was executive vice president of ABC News. He worked as editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times and was named editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1995. Coffey also held positions at The Washington Post, the U.S. News & World Report and the Dallas Times Herald.