Greg Schieferstein is leaving KRNV/KRXI in Reno, NV after three years as ND for the proverbial job to be announced soon. Schieferstein is a former ND in Pocatello, Peoria, Augusta, GA, and Missoula, MT. ...
Yesterday we reported to you the pending departure of Lauren Magiera from Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago -a departure not of her choice. Today it is the long talked-about and finally happening retirement of Dan ...
To be fair, the early morning hours probably got old at some point for Alyson Courtney, morning anchor for the past 14 years at Sinclair’s KATV in Little rock, AR. But we did find ...
While some are whining that CNN didn’t clean house and magically turn things around the day Warner Discovery took over, we might credit the new overseers with rectifying something that should never have happened. ...
Add another hat to the head of Greg Conner, currently vice president-general manager of Sinclair’s WACH Columbia, S.C., and WFXL Albany, Ga. The 20+-year Sinclair vet has handled those jobs so well, the folks ...
Liz Cho was MIA from the WABC anchor desk for an extended period beginning in February and ending just recently. And now she is out again. Not exactly the best news ...
It truly is a new adventure for Seattle native, and outgoing KIRO meteorologist, Claire Anderson, who is moving all the way across the country so she can forecast something other than rain. Next stop ...
Two years after joining Nexstar’s WPRI in Providence, RI as a consumer reporter and anchor, Gina Marini is headed for the hills. The hills of West Virginia and WCHS, a Sinclair property, that is. ...
Joe Radske will be the next news director for Gray’s WEAU in Eau Claire, WI. For the last six years, he’s been the ND for KVRR in Fargo, ND, owned for the moment by ...
Rocco DiSangro, for the past four years the sports director at Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL, is moving on. His last day at the station is in mid-May before he starts his next adventure ...
We’re so old, we remember a time when a reporter could be out on a live shot and onlookers would keep a respectful distance and their mouths shut. Not so much anymore. Anchor/reporter Jacqueline ...
It’s a return to her Florida home area for Christina Watkins, who is the new weekend morning anchor at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando. Watkins spent the past four years anchoring the midday news and ...
Chicago media watcher Robert Feder notes that the newly-minted anchor team of Joe Donlon and Irika Sargent will mark the 14th anchor change at CBS-owned WBBM in 22 years. That rivals the Cleveland Browns’ ...
Buffalo media reporter Alan Pergament offered an update on Heather Waldman, the popular Buffalo meteorologist who left Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WGRZ last summer. After the move with her husband, she quickly landed a freelance gig. ...
Onetime WISN weekend sports anchor and reporter Dario Melendez is returning to the Hearst station in Milwaukee, WI. He’s replacing Dan Needles, who retired last month after 32 years at the station. “The WISN ...
Reporter Angelica Morrison has hit the exit at Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY (and the tv news business) after three years. Morrison, who had ten years of broadcast journalism experience, is going to work ...
Gregg Palermo is moving on to a new adventure and he didn’t have to leave St. Louis to do it. Palermo has joined Spectrum’s new St. Louis operation as a digital journalist., focusing on ...
After a short, less-than-satisfying stint at ratings-starved NewsNation, Joe Donlon will be turning up on Chicago-area television as the freshly-installed main anchor at CBS-owned WBBM. His return to local television in the Windy City ...
Emily Erikson is putting on a second hat as she moves into the news director’s office for Gray’s WTOK in Meridian, MS. She’ll continue to anchor the evening news in her hometown. http:// She ...
That’s a fairly succinct way to sum up the end of Kris Pickel’s 7-year run at Gray Phoenix, AZ duopoly KPHO/KTVK. Ironic as well, since the stations collectively brand themselves as Arizona’s Family. “It ...
After 3 and a half years doing general assignment reporting for Cox-owned WFXT in Boston, Evan White has opted for a career change…and tv news isn’t part of it. ...
Sinclair has moved Hilary Walker into the vp/general manager’s office WTGS in Savannah, GA Walker was bumped up from her local sales manager position at Sinclair’s Gainesville, FL duopoly WGFL-WNBW. She gets to hang ...
It seems like it was only yesterday that Star Harvey showed up as the “NO WAIT WEATHER+TRAFFIC” morning meteorologist and lifestyle show “Houston Happens” co-host at Nexstar’s KIAH in Houston. But it was a ...
A 45 year career in tv news is coming to an end in June as Manchester NH anchorman Tom Griffith steps down from the anchor chair at Hearst’s WMUR. Just about 35 of those ...
The News Guild, a union that represents journalists, and a Tegna shareholder have “serious concerns” about the company’s pending sale to Standard Media and are demanding a closer examination before the sale is completed. ...
Almost exactly two years after she was plucked off the main anchor desk to become general manager, Becky Hillier is putting Cowles KULR in Billings, MT and the TV news business behind her because ...
The new senior contributor to help fill the fourth hour of an expanded “Morning Joe” at MSNBC is Eugene Daniels. He’s been a contributor at MSNBC since last year and is also White House ...
WDIV, the Graham Media station in Detroit, is on a mission to elevate the overall look of the station talent. But management’s plan to help improve wardrobe and makeup has pissed off longtime anchors ...
52 years after it was filmed, as part of a story about the public school teacher strike in Minneapolis, the archivists at CBS-owned WCCO in the Twin Cities made an unbelievable find. One of ...
We ran across this article that we found rather fascinating – albeit somewhat fanciful given the impenetrable silos we have put ourselves in in recent years. “What If FOX News Viewers Watched CNN?” is ...
At one point in her career, Hena Doba was an anchor at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Then she moved on to CBS News as a “Newspath correspondent from 2015 to 2019. Then it was ...
After ten years with Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WKYC in Cleveland OH, anchor/reporter Will Ujek bid farewell to the station to move on to NBC News and a new job as a Cleveland-based field producer. http:// ...
Nexstar recently observed…quietly…the one-year anniversary of its lone cable subscription outlet’s transition from Superstation WGN into NewsNation Since its launch, NewsNation has been a nationwide outlet in search of an audience. To date, it’s ...
The National Association of Black journalists had a meeting with CNN executives late last week after a questionable photo inside the CNN+ war room surfaced. The NABJ released a statement after the meeting and ...
The news hit Sunday night. Former WUSA anchor Bruce Johnson died of a heart attack at 71. In 2018, the broadcaster was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He took some time off to undergo chemotherapy ...
A change in her husband’s job status is taking meteorologist Abby Dyer away from Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, MO after 11 years. She explains his exciting new career prospect and her own exit from ...
Lianna Golden is headed for the weekend anchor desk at Sinclair duopoly KFOX/KDBC in El Paso, TX She joined the station in June of last year in her first fulltime tv news job. http:// ...
Two years after she covered the presidential elections and did documentaries for CBS News, Maria Elena Salinas is jumping to ABC News as a contributor. At ABC News, she will be a contributor and ...
Letitia Walker returns to the news director’s office as she takes over at Gray’s KPLC in Lake Charles, LA. She’s been working at WWL in New Orleans as a morning EP, but earlier had ...
There’s no time like an anniversary to announce you’re breaking up. And that is exactly the approach taken by meteorologist Metinka Slater, who took the occasion of her 16th anniversary at Hearst’s KCCI weather ...
After three years serving as weekday evening anchor and executive producer at Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s KIDY in San Angelo, TX, Tim O’Brien finds himself headed for sunny Southern California. O’Brien will be anchoring the weekday ...
When Laura Rogers departed the morning and midday chair at Gray’s WBKO in Bowling Green, KY back at the end of 2021, she expected to seamlessly glide into a job with the local Spectrum ...
Pat Tomasulo, the morning sports anchor at Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, IL has another side he’d like you to know about. He’s got a side job as a stand-up comic and he’s just released ...
As we explained earlier this week, we find the plethora of network and cable news pundits to be a misallocation of resources, an abandonment of actual news coverage and a complete waste of viewers’ ...
We’ll never not enjoy reporting when a news director makes it to the job once reserved for sales geeks and bean counters only – the general manager of the television station. So we point ...
Second generation newsman Andrew Altenbern returns to Allen Media’s KWWL in Waterloo, IA as ND. Details from GM John Huff. Altenburn has been the Assistant ND for KFSM in Ft. Smith, AR, has worked ...
The newest senior producer at Disney’s WLS in the Windy City is Justyna Syska. Syska joined the station back in 2012 for the launch of the now extinct “Windy City Live.” Justyna has continued ...
While hundreds of tv newsers have been left stranded and out of work by their former employer, the Black News Channel has formally filed for bankruptcy. In its filing, the Tallahassee-based network listed $10 ...
It’s 11 years in tv news and out for Joe Chiodo. For the past six years he’s been morning news anchor at Gray’s KCTV in Kansas City, MO. He’s taken the exit from tv ...
50 years, in excess of 1,000 stories and a ton of Emmy hardware, all in service to his “dream job.” And now Arnold Diaz is calling it a career, bringing to a close his ...
Brandon Saho would seem to have it all going for him -a Cincinnati native working in his hometown after a relatively swift upward climb in his chosen career of tv news. But for the ...
WBBM meteorologist Ed Curran is returning to the weather center this weekend, three months after he got a kidney transplant that saved his life. The donor was someone very close to him – his ...
After nine years at the anchor desk of Telemundo’s WSNS in Chicago, Karla Leal is heading south to join Spectrum News 1 in Austin. It’s a return to Austin for Leal, who at one ...
We at NewsBlues have long contended that newsrooms, local, network and cable, would all serve their viewers better if the suits that run them end the practice of hiring politicians, past, present and future, ...
Yesterday we brought you the story of the effort to name an Atlanta street after late WSB anchor Jovita Moore. That honor has already been bestowed on longtime Cleveland anchor and commentator Leon Bibb. ...
A little over two years ago, we reported to you about former longtime WRAL meteorologist Greg Fishel’s new job as an atmospheric scientist for Netherlands-based Priogen energy. Well, he has since picked up another ...
Chris Rock wasn’t the only guy getting slapped over the past week. Well, Rock actually got clocked by former nice guy Will Smith. Departing CBS News London Bureau chief Andy Clarke (left) took more ...
