ALBANY SPORTS REPORTER SAYS GOODBYE
He’s not done with news.
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FOX NEWS CAMERAMAN KILLED IN URKAINE
His correspondent was injured.
JOB ELEVATION IN FLINT
Rebecka Butcher has been named VP/General Manager of WSMH (Fox) in Flint, MI. She’ll also be responsible for overnight of providing services to WEYI (NBC) and WBSF (CW), Sinclair Broadcast Group said in a ...
LEGENDARY STORM FORECASTER FINDS NEW PATH TO VIEWERS
Bryan Norcross has joined Fox Weather, the streaming service of Fox News Media. Norcross is bringing his many years of hurricane knowledge as a specialist and contributor to the FAST channel, TV News Check ...
NEXT STOP: PHILADELPHIA!
Belén Smole is joining WWSI/Telemundo 62 in Philadelphia as a weekday anchor at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m alongside Alberto Rullán. She starts on March 21. Most recently, she was at KXLN, the Univision ...
FIVE WAYS PODCASTERS CAN GET MORE COMFORTABLE ON CAMERA
Our parent company Reel Media Group works with podcast groups to help talent learn how to become more comfortable on camera. The truth is, everyone needs to be on camera now, so we’re sharing ...
JOE DONLON LEAVES NEWS NATION
Newsblues has learned that NewsNation primetime anchor (and one of the original anchors hired to be part of the network) is leaving. This is a major loss for the network. Donlon is the anchor ...
SCOTT WARREN JOINS KPIX AS GM
He replaced retired GM.
MANAGING TO GET NEW DIGITAL POSITION
Reena Mehta is joining ABC News as the senior vice president of digital content. Mehta previously served as vice president of content strategy and planning at HBO Max. The position was created specifically for ...
RESTARTING CAREER AFTER HEALTH CRISIS
Veteran broadcast journalist Jenny Dreasler is rebounding following a medical break. As Dreasler posted on her LinkedIn account, it has been two years away from TV news after having reconstructive knee surgery that put her ...
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL PITCH FOR LEGENDARY SPORTS ANCHOR
That’s a wonderful life! Guy Junker has been a fixture in Western Pennsylvania for generations. The longtime WTAE sports anchor is retiring at the end of April, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. During his 44-year ...
CLOSING CAREER IN SAN DIEGO
With a resume that features stop in Arkansas, Austin and Dallas, Steve Atkinson is taking off his mic clip for the final time. The anchor, who joined KGTV/ABC10 in San Diego, Calif. said after ...
SAN FRANCISCO, HERE WE COME!
KSNV‘s loss is KPIX‘s gain. Darrin Reed Cowan is now part of the Bay Area, as he told his Facebook followers that he is joining the San Francisco-based KPIX 5. The versatile Cowan will ...
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!
Looks who’s an anchor team again! For the first time in seven years, Doug Dunbar is sharing the KTVT CBS 11 desk with Karen Borta. The on-air duo spent the previous seven years together ...
ANCHOR’S AWAY FOR HOMECOMING
New beginnings, but a familiar location for Ryan Dean, who returns home to Central New York. The veteran journalist is joining WSYR NewsChannel 9 as co-anchor of The Morning News. Ryan will team with ...
MORNING SHOW ADDS NYC REPORTER
Maria Vargas-Pion is joining Telemundo Network’s reconfigured weekday morning program, Media Moves reports. Vargas-Pion will be a New York-based news correspondent for “hoy Día.” Her first day is Monday, March 14, according to Media ...
CNN+ HAS ITS START DATE
The much-anticipated latest streaming service has its debut scheduled. CNN+ will officially launch on March 29, Deadline reports. CNN’s new subscription service will feature much of the talent already part of the cable network, ...
SPORTS DIRECTOR TURNS FOR HOME
After a remarkable 43-year run at KTVU Fox 2, sports director Mark Ibanez is retiring. The announcement was made by Golden State Warriors’ head coach Steve Kerr on Tuesday night. Ibanez earned four Emmy ...
WATCH: LIVE HIT AND RUN DURING REPORT ABOUT MOST DANGEROUS STREET
A funny thing happened on the way to KTLA reporter Gene Kang’s live shot about the most dangerous street in Los Angeles. As though right on cue, a hit-and-run develops behind Kang and the ...
BELOVED JOURNALIST HEADS FOR GREENER PASTURES
After eight years in two stints, Shevaun Bryan is leaving WHNT/News 19 in Huntsville, Alabama. Shevaun is taking her skills to WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina as an anchor/reporter. Her last day at News ...
FORECAST IS SUNNY FOR NEW METEOROLOGIST
WDBJ in Roanoke, VA has added a meteorologist to its staff. Catherine Maxwell, a native of Christiansburg, joins WDBJ from its sister station WVVA in Bluefield. Viewers will get to see Catherine beginning the ...
IN BRIEF…THE WEEKENDER
Jacklynn Boatman gets her first news director job at Block Communications WAND in Decatur, IL. She’s been the Assistant ND there since 2019, and the interim ND since Morgan Schaab left in October to ...
IN BRIEF….THE MOVING UP EDITION
Morning anchor Gray Hall at Disney’s WPVI will be changing his wakeup time on his alarm clock- and not because he’s springing ahead this weekend. Beginning Monday, he will join the anchor team for ...
HEADING UP I-71
For the past decade, Tara Morgan has plied her trade as an investigative reporter at Sinclair’s WSYX in Columbus, OH. Soon, she will be moving to base of operations nearer to Lake Erie, at ...
17 YEARS WAS ENOUGH. NOW KONTJI ANTHONY PONDERS HER FUTURE
Memphis anchor Kontji Anthony has decided that change is in her future. So she’s leaving Gray’s WMC anchor desk when her contract ends next month to try and figure out what that future is. ...
THE NEW GUY IN KC
Kevin Barry debuted this week as the new 10 pm co-anchor on Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City, MO. http:// Barry spent the past four years as a reporter at Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland, OH. ...
AUSTIN, HERE SHE COMES
If it seemed like a quick two years for Libbi Farrow as morning anchor at Nexstar-operated duopoly WVNY/WFFF in Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh NY…well, of course it was. And now she is headed for Texas and ...
ONE STATION GROUP TAKES A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO RECRUITING AND TRAINING.
Bonuses and student loan repayment are two of the carrots being held out by Morgan Murphy Media as it embarks on a program to counter the drain of young talent in the tv news ...
A QUICK EXIT IN HOUSTON
If viewers need a little time to say goodbye to their tv news favorites, Dr. Jim Siebert of FOX-owned KRIV in Houston gave them little to no notice. “Today is my last day here ...
NEWSPAPERS TAKE A PAGE FROM TV NEWS
It wasn’t that long ago that tv newsrooms were eager to get their meteorologists on the local paper’s weather page. And papers were happy to have them. Now, newspapers are looking to add their ...
IN BRIEF…MANY HAPPY RETURNS EDITION
Nicole Hogensen returns to her native Ohio as she will be the next news director for Sinclair’s WSYX-WTTE in Columbus, OH. She left WPTV in West Palm Beach after eleven years, six as ND. ...
THAT’S ONE BOOK ON HER RESUME
This is something we are seeing more of in recent times – a tv neweser publishing a book. In this case is it the consumer reporter for Disney’s WLS in Chicago, Samantha Chatman. This ...
IN BRIEF…MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE NETWORK EDITION…
With incoming president Chris Licht signaling a cease-fire with FOX News (however will they fill the time!), CNN may be ready for life to get settled, especially now that former president Jeff Zucker has ...
ANCHOR CHANGES AND NEW ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED AT NYC STATION
WNJU 5 and 5:30 anchor David Rodriguez is taking on an additional role as the Telemundo station’s chief investigative reporter as part of the investigative unit’s relaunch in late April (We know…just in time ...
CENTRAL PA ANCHOR LEAVES TV NEWS BEHIND
Matt Maisel spent roughly 15 years in the tv news game, starting at WJAC in Johnstown PA as a sports reporter and eventually moving to Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WPMT in Harrisburg, PA where he made ...
ONCE AGAIN, BROADCASTERS TRY TO SKIRT RESPONSIBILITY
We’re old enough to remember when the television industry was a money machine. It was also a time when broadcasters constantly whined about the time, expense and effort of keeping meticulous open records about ...
MARRIED ANCHOR TEAM LEAVING TEXAS AND HEADING FOR KENTUCKY
Josh and Kathleen Ninke, currently the morning anchor team at Gray’s KBTX in Bryan-College Station for the past year and a half, are heading north at the end of the month for Louisville, KY. ...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS NEWSMAX SEGMENT?
Including calling war reporters FAKE.
DID THE BOSS’ SON JUST GET A GIG AT WPIX NEW YORK CITY?
Let’s break it down.
MORE NEWS OUT OF AUSTIN
Here’s more news out of Austin. At KXAN, there’s no comings just goings. Veteran reporter Robert Hadlock, who is the longest continuously serving news anchor in the city, is going to retire this summer. ...
FOX DC HIRES NEW CHIEF LEGAL CORRESPONDENT
Katie Barlow is WTTG’s new chief legal correspondent. A former lawyer, she comes from WTOP in D.C. where she covered Capitol Hill. She also has her own podcast and has worked with NPR. Paul ...
A LAUGH AND A BRUISE
It’s not so serious.
ANOTHER DEPARTURE, ANOTHER PROMOTION
This time in Roanoke.
KYW GETS NEW GENERAL MANAGER
After a long search, KYW in Philadelphia has named a new president and general manager. They have recruited WTSP‘s Kelly Frank to come run the CBS station that had come undone a couple years ...
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS PAULINA BUCKA?
The anchor stayed on the job for less than four months.
NEW MORNING ANCHOR NAMED IN HUNTSVILLE
She replaces someone who just left.
SHE’S BACK WITH BABY ON THE BRAIN
KVUE’s chief meteorologist Erika Lopez returned to the Austin station in 2020. She left in 2019 to do a dayside stint in Houston after doing mornings at KVUE. When she got back and took ...
FORT MYERS METEOROLOGIST USES DISABILITY TO INSPIRE THE INDUSTRY
This WBBH weather anchor was born without a hand.
KGW NAMES REPLACEMENT FOR ANCHOR DAN HAGGERTY
KGW anchor and the host of The Story Dan Haggerty left the Portland, Ore. station last year for a job at WRAL in Raleigh to raise his kids closer to family. The station finally ...
NEW CORPUS GENERAL MANAGER STARTS THE JOB
We told you that Rebecca Cantu was hired to take over as president and general manager of Tegna’s Corpus Christi station last month. She officially started on March 4. The former president and general ...
RETIRED WUSA ANCHOR PENS NEW BOOK
He’s talking his life and the news.
COMING HOME TO ATLANTA
It was a dream that came true.
CHECKING OUT FOR AWHILE
This needs to be taken care of.
ON THE MOVE
Mort Meisner Edition.
I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING!!
Cincy anchor plans April retirement.
ON THE MOVE
Mort Meisner Edition.
WSB NAMES JOVITA MOORE’S REPLACEMENT
She’s a very well-know personality in the market.
HERE’S HOW TO HOLD THE POWERFUL ACCOUNTABLE
We need more anchors like WEAR‘s Joe Solarski. For any young reporters reading this, this is a perfect example of holding the powerful accountable. Solarski works for the Sinclair station in Pensacola, Fla. They ...
REPORTER TRIPS AND FALLS LIVE ON TV
He wasn't MMJing ... he was just ... clumsy.
A MENTAL HEALTH BREAK
This station did the right thing.
A NEW NEWS DIRECTOR IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
He’s local.
THIS IS HOW METEOROLOGISTS CAN WIN VIEWERS
The reason there is doubt and what we think…
FORMER TV NEWSERS WIN THE AMAZING RACE
This couple has such amazing luck.
WRAPPING IT UP AFTER THIRTY YEARS
He’s a local legend.
FORMER FOX NEWS STAFFER IN HOT WATER OVER RUSSIAN TIES
This could go down in history.
FORMER SATX ANCHOR WINGS BIG IN PRIMARY
A former San Antonio and Texas based meteorologist has a seat in Congress. Maclovio Perez won the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Texas’ 27th Congressional District. Perez worked as a meteorologist for KENS ...
IT’S LIKE RIDING A BICYCLE
Chicago viewers might have done a double-take when tuning in Disney’s WLS in Chicago this week, and seeing Ryan Chiaverinni turn up doing sports. The current “Windy City Weekend” host last did sports at ...
SHEP SMITH GETTING A HIGH-PROFILE REPORTER TO HELP BOLSTER HIS PROG
When Shep Smith bolted FOX News in disgust back in October 2019, and subsequently landed at CNBC about a year later, one had hopes that his new television home would benefit from his presence ...
HEADED UP THE INTERSTATE
In an in-house move, Bill Siegel is moving up I-95 from Scripps ‘ WSFL in Miami to take over as GM at sister duopoly WPTV/WHDT in West Palm, Beach. Siegel had been vp/gm in ...
THEY HOPE IT’S AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE
Forgive them if they might seem bit distracted by the recent turmoil in the executive offices, but business is business, so later this month CNN will finally enter the streaming business. CNN+ will launch ...
MOVING UP IN THE WINDY CITY
She started out as a freelance writer/producer, but now Michelle Corless has been promoted to full-time digital newscast producer at Disney’s WLS in Chicago. That means she will be in charge of the station’s ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
KTAB/KRBC in Abilene, TX Travis Ruiz is joining the Nexstar recruiting team and thus leaving this sister Nexstar operation (Nexstar owns KTAB/CBS and operates KRBC-NBC). He’s been ND here for five years, worked for ...
“TO WORK IN NEW YORK IS MY DREAM”
When March (hopefully) goes out like a lamb, Atlanta reporter Chris Jose will say good bye to the city and head north. After five years at COX-owned WSB, Jose is going to work for ...
TIME TO CATCH YOUR BREATH
The February sweeps are done and dusted and May is….so far away. Settle back and enjoy the fact the weekend is coming…click here for scenes some of you might like to forget.
BAY AREA REPORTER ANNOUNCES HER DEPARTURE
Melissa Colorado, a reporter at NBC-owned KNTV (and sister Telemundo station KSTS) in the Bay Area for the past four years, this week is wrapping up her tenure at the station(s). Next destination: TBA ...
SINCLAIR TO EXPAND “THE NATIONAL DESK” TO WEEKEND STARTING TOMORROW
The weekday AM and PM editions of Sinclair’s “The National Desk” will be joined Saturday, March 5 by an evening weekend edition. “TND Weekend Edition” will be anchored by Eugene Ramirez, who will continue ...
CHARLOTTE ANCHOR WELCOMES NEW BABY AFTER HARDSHIP
WSOC anchor Allison Latos faced some serious hardships over the course of two years. First, she lost a baby. Next, doctors diagnosed the Charlotte anchor with thyroid cancer. It was all during the COVID ...
A COUPLE OF SPORTS GUYS TAKE TEXAS JOBS
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports on a couple of news sports faces on Texas television. Owen Simpson is joining Sinclair’s KTXS in Abilene and he is excited. (See “Moving Up to Austin in today’s ...
ABC NEWS GIVES VETERAN EXEC A BOOST AND A NEW TITLE
ABC News President Kim Godwin announced Wednesday that the newly created New York-based position of Executive Editor and Senior VP of ABC News will be filled by a familiar face around the office. Stacia ...
MOVING UP TO AUSTIN
Just two years after joining Sinclair’s KTXS sports department in Abilene, TX, Noah Gross is headed for Austin and Nexstar’s KXAN. But the Cleveland native wasn’t leaving Abilene without saying goodbye. http://
PINK SLIPS HANDED OUT IN LA
The newscasts that were once produced at Estrella-owned KRCA in Los Angeles, are now coming to viewers from a studio in Mexico City. As a result, about two dozen LA-based staffers, some of whom ...
FOR THIS NORFOLK SPORTS VET 45 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Bruce Rader made his mark in 45 years as the primary sports anchor at Nexstar’s WAVY in Norfolk, VA. And he figures 45 years is enough….and he’s wrapping it up. Rader was working for ...
IN BRIEF…..COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jamie Burch returns to the news director chair as he takes over at Sinclair’s KVII in Amarillo, TX. Burch spent the last year or so as the Assistant ND at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco. ...
SINCLAIR STATION MAKES ROOM FOR ANOTHER COX NEWSCAST
Another news viewing option is coming to Pittsburgh March 14, when Cox-owned WPXI rolls out a 6:30 pm newscast…on Sinclair’s WPGH. WPXI veteran anchor David Johnson will sit alongside Liz Kilmer for the new ...
AN EMOTIONAL GOODBYE
Less than a week after her tear-filled goodbye from the anchor desk at WWL, Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard General’s New Orleans station, Karen Swensen turned up on “CBS Mornings” to talk about what comes next after ending ...
BACK TO HOUSTON BUT NOT IN THE NEWS BUSINESS
It’s a little complicated but Tracy Clemons, who’s an anchor at FOX8 WGHP in Greensboro-High Point, N.C., since 2018, will be returning to Houston but not for news. Clemons was once a MMJ in ...
NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES!
If you click on the Sourcebook tab today to gather contacts or just browse, you’ll see change is happening. We need your help though. If you know of a news director coming or going, ...
FROM EP TO MORNING CONTENT DIRECTOR
The morning content director position is unique to TEGNA stations. Many AM content directors serve as managing editors for the programming across broadcast and digital. Yesterday, we told you TEGNA appointed a new general ...
ATLANTA ICON PREPARES FOR HER RETURN
It’s a format a lot of local news stations are abandoning.
ALLEN MEDIA NAMES A NEWS PRESIDENT
Allen Media has a new president of news and original series for its Weather Group. Nora Zimmett will join the company from The Weather Channel. There she was the cheif content officer and executive ...
GRAY AXES ONE NEW GM, HIRES REPLACEMENT
The last general manager KOLD hired didn’t work out. Michael Hornbeck was hired from across the street at KVOA, the Allen Media owned station. At KOLD, he lasted only three months despite have years ...
THIS HBO EXEC SAYS HIRE JOURNALISTS !
Katie Hasty, who is the director of editorial strategy at HBO, has some good advice if you’re thinking about getting out of the business (or have). And it’s not just advice for journalists looking ...
ANCHOR SHUFFLE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Fox Virginia is changing its lineup. Weekend anchor and reporter Carly Haynes is taking over the weekday duties at 4 p.m. That leaves a weekend anchor spot and weekday reporter spot open. Sarah Robinson ...
HEADED FOR HOUSTON
Four years into the business and this reporter is jumping from the Sarasota market (just outside of Tampa) to Houston. Daniela Hurtado is leaving WWSB and heading to KTRK – MARKET 8. “I’m blessed ...
DAN ABRAMS BOUNCED TO A NEW TIME SLOT
The show debuted last night.
REPORTERS FIRED FROM NEW 12 START LANDING NEW GIGS
“Here we go!”
KDKA BEEFS UP FOR THE WEATHER WARS
KDKA is beefing up its weather team. For the first time in a long time, we are reporting on a hire but its not to replace anyone who’s left. The CBS station in Pittsburgh ...
WHAT MOTIVATED THE MYSTERY FIRING?
Here’s what we do and don’t know.
