By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s a homecoming of sorts for Natalee Allen, who returns to KIVI, Idaho News 6 as the news director. Allen moves within the market after having spent the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Abigail Degler joins WMAR, Scripps ABC affiliate in Baltimore, MD as a weekday meteorologist. Degler previously worked as a meteorologist at WJZ in Baltimore for two years. ...
Elizabeth Alvarez showed up this week on the morning newscast at Nexstar’s KSWB in San Diego. It was just five days ago that she announced her departure from across the street at locally-owned KUSI ...
Two month after departing Hearst’s WCVB in Beantown, investigative reporter Kathy Curran is adding NBC-owned WBTS to her resume…starting Monday. http:// Curran spent ten years at WCVB and before that, well over 15 years ...
Just last Thursday, as he announced his departure after eight years from Tegna’s (Standard Media yada yada yada) WXIA in Atlanta, GA, Brendan Keefe promised an announcement of his next step this week. True ...
Allison Sandza is now executive producer for streaming Washington coverage at CBS News. The job is a new one that combines working with bureau correspondents, producers and off-air journalists to sharply focus efforts across ...
Four years after he moved up at Telemundo’s WZDC to become an MMJ and weather anchor, Daniel Rivera has crossed the street, to Univision’s WFDC, where he will be the station’s principal forecaster, weekdays ...
Kyla Grogan left FOX-owned Oakland, CA-based KTVU last fall At the time she didn’t share what her plans were. Eight months later, we know. She’s moving across the Bay and the weather center at ...
Ashley Zavala is moving across a Sacramento, CA street from Nexstar’s State Capitol team to join Hearst’s KCRA/KQCA as its new Capitol correspondent. And thrills abound. “We’re thrilled to welcome Ashley to the KCRA ...
Elisa DiStefano, the veteran lifestyle and entertainment reporter for News 12 Long Island wasted no time in crossing the street. Seventeen years after she started at News 12, and just days after she left, ...
And let’s share the thrill as Javier Soto crosses the Phoenix street from Gray’s self-styled “Arizona’s Family” duopoly KTVK-KPHO to join Scripps KNXV. Soto abandoned the “Family’ last month after more than 17 ½ ...
From the printed to the spoken word is the move being made by Laura Barrón-López, who departs Politico to become the new White House correspondent for “PBS NewsHour.” She starts Monday. She will likely ...
Last month, when reporter Hunter Saenz announced his departure from Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WCNC, he assured his social media following he wasn’t intending to leave town. He just walked across the street. http://
When Amanda Raus announced last December that she was leaving Tegna-soon-to-be-blahblahblah’s WTIC in Hartford, CT and on to her next adventure, it was generally assumed she would be making a jump into the New ...
San Antonio tv news viewers were gobsmacked…and more than a little upset…last July when anchor Isis Romero was dumped by Graham Media’s KSAT. Those viewers will be pleased to know that Romero will soon ...
Over the weekend, popular Connecticut news anchor Stephanie Simoni announced that she had exited Nexstar’s WTNH after ten years, promising she would announce her next career move soon. http:// Her news came at the ...
Continuing the exodus from Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT., Amber Diaz showed up this week as the new 5:30 pm co-anchor on NBC-owned WVIT She had earlier teased that a move might be in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Former FOX News analyst Stephen Hayes debuted over the weekend in his new role as a contributor and analyst for NBC News, sitting down with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”. Hayes and fellow ...
Media watchers in Connecticut were gobsmacked last week when they found out that Rick Green, who had been a stalwart at the “Hartford Courant” for the better part of 35 years, was leaving the ...
For the past couple of year, meteorologist Kevin Derk has been a fill-in forecaster at Tegna’s WNEP in Scranton-Wilkes Barre, PA. Before that, he spent 12 years at Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in the same market. ...
This time, the nation’s third largest group owner went across the streets of Tucson, AZ to hire Michael Hornbeck away from Allen Media’s KVOA to become GM of KOLD. It’s a step up for ...
It was just last March that we told you Jessie Garcia became editorial director for Scripps’s WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI…a mere year after she moved from sports to become broadcast director. Her journey up ...
Scripps’ KSBY in San Luis Obispo will soon have a new morning face as anchor/reporter Genelle Padilla joins the station’s Dawn Patrol And kids, she is beyond excited “I am beyond excited and honored ...
Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago is bringing in an investigative reporter from the city’s “Sun-Times newspaper. Sam Charles spent the past 8 years at the paper. The Chicago native worked in the Twin Cities prior ...
Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis has reached back into its personnel files to bring back two station vets to fill new roles in the newsroom Because, you know…. they are “on your side.” Tram ...
Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo didn’t look too far to find the replacement for the headed-for-a-bigger-market Jenna Harner. Sports anchor-reporter Heather Prusak is taking the exit at Tegna’s WGRZ. The Buffalo-area native takes up her ...
After just over 9 years at the once-mighty, now-Nexstar KRON, sports/weekend anchor J.R Stone had an announcement to make. Not a long haul to his new digs at Disney’s KGO where he will be ...
Gordon Wittenmyer, Chicago Cubs beat writer for city’s “Sun-Times” since 2007, is leaving to join NBC Sports Chicago. He’s start in March as the “Cubs Insider” reporter. He’s expected to continue as a contributor ...
The death of non-compete agreements in the state of Utah has opened the door to allow talents to shop their abilities elsewhere and not have to take an unwelcome time-out on the bench. The ...
In something of a surprise jump, John Harwood turned up this week as the newest White House correspondent for CNN. Harwood had been CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent since 2006. His hire will likely take ...
After 12 years with CNN, Kelly Daniel is joining NBC News Now as executive producer for the service’s forthcoming morning show. The new program will be featured on the forthcoming Peacock streaming service. At ...
After nearly 18 years on the nightside assignment desk for Fox’s WFXT in Boston, Bill Sheerin caused a bit of tv newsworld palpitations by turning up as the new managing editor for Hearst’s WCVB. ...
Pulitzer-winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson is the new senior financial investigative reporter for NBC News, beginning December 2. She is expected to “lead our reporting on the intersection of money and power and will bolster ...
When we last heard from Mobile, AL meteorologist Alan Sealls, it was in June and the veteran forecaster had just walked out the door at Nexstar duopoly WKRG-WFNA after he and management hit a ...
Jim Tortora returns to a newsroom as the Assistant News Director at WHEC, the Hubbard owned station in Rochester, NY. Tortora most recently was news director at WROC in Rochester, NY, a job he left ...
A charter member of the Fox News Channel team is heading for the exit door. Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as senior investigative correspondent, after 23 years with FNC. She will be based ...
Amy Rutledge, until Monday the traffic and feature reporter at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, appears to be headed to a new gig. Robert Feder reports that she is about to sign on as a ...
Veteran journalist Janet Shamlian has joined CBS News as a Houston-based correspondent. Shamlian spent the past ten years at NBC News reporting for “Today,” “NBC Nightly News” and MSNBC. Back in her local news ...
Taking a stroll across the street in Syracuse, NY is Farah Jadran. Jadran will be performing morning and midday anchor duties at WTVH, operated by Sinclair, owned by Granite beginning later this month. She ...
Why did the traffic reporter cross the street? Olessa Stepanova had been reporting on the morning rush hour traffic for more than five years at Hearst’s WCVB in Boston when she reportedly, and rather ...
CNN has added “HuffPost” editor at large Vicky Ward as a New York-based senior reporter. Ward is the best-selling author of (take a deep breath) “Kushner, Inc: Greed Power, Corruption, The Extraordinary Story of ...
Former Univision anchor María Elena Salinas is joining the CBS News team as a contributor. An award-winning journalist, author and the longest running female network anchor in the United States, she will contribute reports ...
After 7 years at Graham Media’s WPLG in Miami, Carlos Suarez is up on the Dade-Broward County line at NBC-owned WTVJ. He’s the new weekend anchor at the station, as he jubilantly announced on ...
Well now, what would you make of this announcement? “I have decided not to renew my contract when it is up this month,” she wrote. But, “I am not leaving TV and I am ...
Valeria Barriga moved across the street from KVDA, the San Antonio Telemundo station to KWEX, the local Univision outlet. She’d been anchoring the weather segments for KVDA for two years after arriving from sister ...
After two decades away, Mahelda Rodríguez is back at Telemundo’s KVEA in Los Angeles – this time as managing editor. She crossed the street, in effect, from Univision’s KMEX in LA where she EP’ed ...
NBC News announced on Monday the hiring of CNN’s longtime video executive Chris Berend to run its digital operation. According to Axios, Berend will replace Nick Ascheim, who is currently senior vice president of digital ...
The newest face on WBBM in Chicago is (sort of) crossing the street from Telemundo’s WSNS. So, for some Chicago viewers, César Rodríguez won’t be a new face at all. He was a general-assignment ...
Gray’s WIS in Columbia, S.C., has brought back Alicia Barnes, a year after she left competitor WOLO, a Bahakel property. She will be the weekend evening anchor and weekday reporter. She’d been at WOLO ...
Kimberly Brooks has joined ABC News Live, the 24/7 breaking news and events streaming service. She’s an anchor/reporter who previously worked for Fusion TV. Brooks will host the streaming channel’s daily morning show, “The ...
Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland is lifting sportscaster Nick Camino from local radio station WTAM to be Channel 3’s new weekend sports anchor. He replaces Dave Chudowsky, whose move to Channel 3′s morning show last ...
Following a 9-year stint as a reporter and anchor with WJAN, a Spanish-language indie tv station in Miami, FL, Yvette Lewis is moving into a weekday reporter slot with Telemundo’s WSCV, across the street. ...
After 34 years in radio, Eileen Buckley feels she is ready for television. She’s leaving Buffalo public radio station WBFO, one of ten radio stations around New York State for 3+ decades, to become ...
Yara Lasanta is the new chief meteorologist for Univision’s KMEX in Los Angeles and no change of home address forms are necessary. She is moving from Telemundo’s West Coast LA flagship KVEA where she ...
Afua Owusu, supervising producer of “WGN Morning News” at the Tribune Chicago station, is the new executive producer of “The Jam,” WCIU’s weekday morning news, talk and entertainment program. It’s a cross-town move to ...
A NewsBlues tipster tells us that CBS News has lured away veteran correspondent Janet Shamlian from NBC News. Shamlian is an NBC veteran, reporting for “The Today Show,” “NBC Nightly News” and MSNBC. Shamlian ...
Ayah Galal may be the first local news reporter in Connecticut to wear a hijab when she starts he new position as a producer/MMJ at Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT. Galal, a Connecticut native ...
TVSpy is reporting that former WHDH anchor Nicole Oliverio is heading across the street to WFXT, the Cox owned Boston station. Starting today, Oliverio will join the Fox station as a weekend co-anchor at ...
Starting tomorrow, Boston viewers will see a familiar face in a different setting. Pamela Gardener takes over forecasting duties at noon 4 and 5 pm on WBTS, NBC 10. She’ll also be a weekday ...
Veteran newsman Gene Kirkconnell is the new ND for Nexstar owned WRBL in Columbus, GA. He need not move, as he’s been the ND for cross town WLTZ for the past 2 1/2 years. This detailed ...
Rosarina Bretón and Eliecer Marte are the two newest street reporters at Telemundo’s WNJU in New York. Bretón worked for nearly ten years as a breaking news reporter, traffic reporter and weekend anchor at ...
