IN BRIEF….
Auf Wiedersehen edition.
Category: From Rick Gevers
AN ABRUPT DEPARTURE AFTER MORE THAN THREE DECADES
Baltimore news director…gone
KC REVOLVING DOOR NAMES NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
This one will be the TENTH news director at the former Meredith station since 2010.
WELL THAT WAS QUICK!!
He lasted barely half a year
JUST LIKE THAT…GONE
Well-traveled ND is traveling….again
IN BRIEF….
Comings and goings edition
MOVING UP TO NUMBER ONE
He's been in the wings for nearly two decades
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Exit interview edition
IN BRIEF
Up and out edition
A MAJOR OPENING IN LA
A large market news director is leaving her job.
IN BRIEF….
Moving up and out edition
WELL-TRAVELED NEWS EXEC HANGING IT UP
More than four decades in a gaggle of markets
IN BRIEF
Career updates edition
IT WAS A SHORT RETIREMENT
He's BACK.
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TGIF Edition
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Moving up and out edition
SAME STATE, DIFFERENT STATION
Starting this week, a new situation
ONE YEAR AND OUT FOR KC NEWS DIRECTOR
The tenth ND in 13 years
ON THE MOVE??
Does an abrupt departure in Seattle mean a reappearance in L.A.?
IN BRIEF
Ups and downs edition
SOMETIMES A PROMOTION ISN’T ALL ITS CRACKED UP TO BE
A long tenure as #2 led to a short run as ND
LONGTIME LOUISVILLE NEWS EXEC EXITS
She WAVEd buh-bye to the business
JOINING THE CONSULTANT CLASS
A newbie and a returnee
A STEP INTO A DIFFERENT EXECUTIVE POST
Longtime news director moves into a more corporate role
SHE’S EARNED IT
Heading for the shore from her native Colorado
HEALTH FORCES NEWS EXEC TO STEP DOWN
Veteran news director Craig Hume is stepping down as ND for Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in Wilkes-Barre, PA after only a year. In the note he sent to his staff, Craig cited ‘personal health issues’ as ...
GOING CORPORATE
He spent just shy of five years in Cleveland
AND THE FIRST DEPARTING NEWS DIRECTOR OF 2023 IS….
A veteran newser who’s worked in Cleveland, Louisville and Cincinnati
THIS COULD BE A LONG-TERM THING
Joining a station with a stable history of newsroom leadership
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They come….and they go….
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Up and out edition
ANOTHER VET IN PLACE IN EVANSVILLE
He replaces a longtime, and now retired, news executive
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A couple of Sinclair exits
HEADING BACK TO CALIFORNIA
Moving up the management ladder
THE SECOND TIME AROUND IN WICHITA
She’s back!
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Fleeing the business edition
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Comings and goings edition
IN BRIEF…UPWARD MOBILITY EDITION
Moving up the food chain
IN BRIEF…MOVING ‘N’ SHAKIN’ EDITION
Short takes on new moves
SACTO ND CALLS IT QUITS
A veteran news director makes a change.
IN BRIEF….NEW JOBS, FAMILIAR FACES EDITION
A quick glance at who's doing what where.
VETERAN NEWSMAN LANDS IN ND CHAIR AT WABC
It’s a return to local news for him.
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP….AND OUT…EDITION
A promotion and an apparent exit.
IN BRIEF…..CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
At Birmingham’s WBRC, Angie Bierley moves to EP from her current role as digital content manager. Joey Parker, who’s been an ND a several TV stations and most recently ND for Missourinet, a statewide ...
MOVING UP IN WEST VIRGINIA
Matt Irvin has been promoted to news director for Gray’s WVVA in Bluefield, WV. A 19 year employee of the station, he’s done a little bit of everything, from master control to satellite truck ...
IN BRIEF….COMING AND GOINGS EDITION
Bob Freeman is retiring from WEHT/WTVW in Evansville, IN at the end of November. He’s been an ND in the market for 21 years including time as the ND for WFIE-TV across town. GM ...
IN BRIEF…OPEN CHAIRS…OR NO CHAIRS AT ALL EDITION
News Press and Gazette’s KTVZ in Bend, OR is looking for a new news director. Nic Moye has been the news director there since 2016. Moye was also an ND for another Bend station ...
RETURN TO THE BAYOU STATE.
Jonathan Shelley has just been named the next news director for Manship’s WBRZ in Baton Rouge. Here’s the news release from the station. Jonathan replaces Trey Schmaltz, who is being promoted to general manager, ...
LONGTIME CBS NEWSER LANDS HIS FIRST LOCAL ND GIG
A veteran CBS employee returns to his former station for his first news director’s job. Scott Keenan, a 28 year employee of CBS, has been named Vice President/News Director for KTVT/KTXA the network’s duopoly ...
A RETURN TO FAMILIAR TERRITORY
Karin Movesian returns to her former market, this time as ND for Sinclair’s WEYI in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI. Earlier in her career she was the ND for WNEM there. Movesian has also been ND ...
PHOENIX ND DROPS OFF THE RADAR
After six years in the news director’s chair at Tegna’s (Standard Media…soon, soon) KPNX in Phoenix, AZ, George Davilas sent a note to staff last Friday saying he was leaving. Quickly, his Twitter account ...
IN BRIEF…RESUME UPDATE EDITION
Tom Powell has been promoted to ND at Gray’s WPTA/WISE in Ft. Wayne, IN. He’s been the assistant ND (and an anchor). Learn more about his background here. He’s also worked in Memphis and ...
IN BRIEF….
There’s a another new ND at another Rochester station. But he’s not new to the station. Ed Buttacio returns to WHAM in Rochester, NY as the ND. Earlier in his career he was a ...
A VETERAN NEWS DIRECTOR GETS HER NEXT JOB.
Nancy Bauer heads to Nexstar’s KTVX in Salt Lake City as that station’s next ND. Until June, she was the ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas. Bauer joined KTNV from Scripps’ KERO in ...
IN BRIEF….ELEVATIONS AND RETURNS EDITION
Scripps owned WTKR in Norfolk, VA has tabbed Allison Herman as its next news director. She’s been the assistant news director here for about a year but has a longer resume, which you can ...
HE MIGHT UNPACK THIS TIME
Jim Parker will be the next ND at Allen Media’s KADN/KALF in Lafayette, LA. GM Nanette Lavergne told the staff via this memo. Parker has been the ND for Imagicomm’s KIEM/KVIQ in Eureka, CA, ...
HANDING THE REINS OVER IN BATON ROUGE
Big changes are coming to a family owned station in Louisiana. General Manager Rocky Daboval (left) is retiring at Baton Rouge’s WBRZ after 44 years at this Manship-owned station, the last 18 years as ...
IN BRIEF…ONWARD, UPWARD AND SIDEWAYS EDITION
Another Nexstar station fills an open ND job. Chris Babcock advances from Digital Content Director for KTSM in El Paso, TX, a job he’s held for the last year. His background, including a stint ...
SHE’S GETTING HER FIRST NEWS DIRECTOR’S JOB
A veteran newswoman stays in California and gets her first news director’s job. Bobbi Gearhart will be the next ND for Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego. She’s currently the managing editor for KNBC in ...
IN BRIEF…LADDER CLIMBING EDITION
Another Nexstar station, (in this case, WSAV in Savannah, GA) another promotion within the company. Kathy Wideman comes from WJBF in Augusta, GA, where she was Operations Manager and Assistant ND. You’ll see in ...
IN BRIEF….IN, OUT AND UP EDITION
Cathy Shallcross is moving up at New York’s WCBS where she has been promoted to Director of Streaming and Digital Content. She’s worked there for eleven years, beginning as the 5:00 producer before advancing ...
IN BRIEF…UPS AND OUT EDITION
Scripps-owned KSTU in Salt Lake City has promoted interim news director Stacey Roberts. Here’s the note from GM Tim Ermish. Scripps sent Roberts there as an interim from her job as Assistant ND for ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP, OUT AND SEARCHING EDITION
Sinclair’s WEYI/WSMH in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI is looking for a new news director to replace Neilie-Ann Giffune who spent almost three years of her ten years at the station as ND. Sinclair owns WSMH ...
IN BRIEF…BETTER LATE THAN NEVER EDITION
The ball kinda got away from everybody on THREE news director hires over the past few months, all at Cowles stations: KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA…hired PAUL BERGEN, formerly GM and before that news director at ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND NEW VENTURES EDITION
Longtime news director Mark Neerman has launched a new venture, Indarra Media. He sent along this note which explains the new company, his first two partners, including a former network o-and-o GM, and news ...
BOSTON BOUND
Gerardo Lopez is headed to Boston, where he’ll be the next vice president and news director for CBS owned WBZ/WSBK. He’ll replace JESSI MILLER BRADLEY who left the station in late May after about ...
SCRIPPS BUMPS UP A DETROIT NEWS EXEC
Scripps owned WXYZ in Detroit, MI has promoted Kennan Oliphant to news director. He’s been minding the store since Jeff Kiernan left to become GM for sister-Scripps KTNV in Las Vegas earlier this year. ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND OUT EDITION
Nexstar reached into its ranks to fill a new position, Director of News Training. Kelly Hicks, currently the morning EP for WDAF in Kansas City, will implement a training program for newscast producers. She’s ...
IN BRIEF….CAREER SHIFTS EDITION
Congratulations to Jennifer Dale who advances within Gray, not to a new ND job, but to a new role as VP/Recruiting for Gray. More in this email from Gray SVP-Local Media Sandy Breland. Dale ...
IN BRIEF….BIG MOVES EDITION
Gray triopoly KGMB/KHNL/KFVE in Honolulu, HI has hired Scott Duff from sister station WSFA in Montgomery, AL. Duff has been ND there for almost 16 years. He issued this note reflecting on the past ...
WELL, THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG.
Todd Reed, who just joined Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego as news director about four months ago, has already left the station. Staff was apparently told just before the holiday weekend. Reed joined the ...
IN BRIEF…NEW HORIZONS EDITION
Nexstar’s WJBF in Augusta, GA has posted an opening for news director to replace Scott Elledge, who has been the ND here for a long time. He reportedly has a new job lined up….but ...
A CHANGE IN STORE FOR DALLAS ND
Laurie Passman, who’s been VP/News for CBS owned KTVT in Dallas for the last four years, is moving to a new…and yet to be revealed…role at the station. She sent this very detailed and ...
IN BRIEF…SHUFFLING THE DECK IN ROCHESTER EDITION
In the first of TWO new ND openings in the market, Serena Romero has left Sinclair operated WHAM in Rochester, NY for personal reasons. She’d been the ND here for about a year, and ...
IN BRIEF….MANAGEMENT SHUFFLE EDITION
Rick Boone is being promoted within Nexstar to become ND for WHNT in Huntsville, AL. He’s been the news director for KARD-KTVE in Monroe, LA (more below) and has worked in a variety of ...
FORMER MEREDITH EXECS FIND THEIR NEXT LIFE
Two former Meredith executives have a formed a new firm to invest in companies in the broadcast field, and their first acquisition may surprise you. The new entity is called Glass City Talent, and ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING THE CHESS PIECES EDITION
In an inter-Scripps move, Andy Delancey heads north to WCPO in Cincinnati as its next Assistant ND. He had been an EP at WPTV in W. Palm Beach. After a long search, Hayden Elliott has ...
SLIDING INTO THE #1 CHAIR
Bahakel-owned WCCB in Charlotte, NC has promoted Jeff Monheit to news director. More here. Monheit has worked at the station for 14 years, the last seven as Assistant News Director, and has worked in ...
AN ABRUPT EXIT
Jeff Rosetti has left Tegna (soon Standard Media’s) WTHR in Indianapolis after three-plus years as news director and eleven years at the station. GM Michael Brouder sent this terse memo to the staff today. ...
IN BRIEF…UPWARD MOBILITY EDITION
Stephanie Smith joins Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston as Managing Editor. She’s been working at KXAS (NBC owned) in Dallas. The new Assistant ND at Chattanooga’s WTVC (Sinclair) is Jonathan Brines who’s had a ...
IN BRIEF…..HAPPY RETURNS AND (SORTA) FOND FAREWELLS EDITION
Sarah Glover returns to Philadelphia to be VP/News and Civic Engagement for public tv station WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. She’s currently the Managing Editor for Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News, but earlier in her ...
MOVING UP TO #1
RICH GARCIA has been promoted to news director for locally owned WINK in Fort Myers, FL. He’s been the Assistant ND for almost 15 years. His new boss (also his old boss) Tom Doerr, ...
IN BRIEF….COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jeremy Settle is leaving this Altice USA’s News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Here’s the staff note from Altice’s SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Settle’s worked here for nine years, first as Assistant ND and, ...
STAGING A RETURN
Dan Clouse returns to Allen Media’s KIMT in Mason City, IA, this time as ND. He passed along this note which has more details and covers his background. He replaces Jaime Copley who left ...
IN BRIEF…UP, DOWN AND OUT EDITION
Astrid Ressler has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. Here’s her bio page from the station website. She joined the station as the producer for the 6:00, 10:00 and 11:00 ...
IN BRIEF…MANAGEMENT MOVES EDITION
Jim Wilson has left Fox-owned WITI in Milwaukee, WI after more than 30 years of service, the last three as news director. Wilson started at the station of as photographer, was promoted to chief ...
IN BRIEF….SHORT AND SWEET EDITION
Jason Walker started this week as the new Assistant ND for KBTX Gray’s station in Bryan, TX. He’s been the news operations manager and chief photographer at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin, TX. Coventry Adrian ...
ON THE BEACH…IN A GOOD WAY
Paul Caron moves within Nexstar to take over as news director for WBTW in Myrtle Beach, SC. Caron has been the ND for Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL for the last three years. He ...
EYEING THE EXIT
This is a longtime news director who’s leaving the biz.
MOVING INTO THE TOP SPOT
Amanda Post becomes ND at Sinclair’s WGME in Portland, ME. She’s a Maine native and a ten-year veteran of WGME. Post has been the Assistant ND and also worked for Spectrum News in Syracuse ...
THEY MUST REALLY LIKE THE MARKET
Brooks Blanton returns to West Michigan starting May 31st as the ND at Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI. Blanton spent 7 1/2 years as ND for WXMI (now Scripps) before leaving last ...
A NEW NUMBER TWO IN MISSOURI
There’s a new Assistant News Director to tell you about at KOLR-TV in Springfield, MO. Dan Romito returns to TV news after a five-year absence He is the new assistant news director at Nexstar’s ...
IN BRIEF….RETURNS AND IN-HOUSE MOVES EDITION
Leisha Beard moves from one Nexstar station to another as she takes over at WHTM in Harrisburg, PA. We told you last week…in reporting her departure from KSNF/KODE in Joplin, MO…that her next job ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING UP EDITION
Chrissy Mazzone has been promoted to assistant news director from executive producer at Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX. She moved over to the station from Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s KVUE a little over a year ago ...
IN BRIEF…
Mike Lopez returns to Indianapolis where he’ll be the Assistant News Director for Nexstar’s WTTV/WXIN. Here’s the staff email from ND CJ Hoyt. Lopez is currently the Managing Editor for Graham Media’s KPRC in ...
IN BRIEF….”EXITING HERE” EDITION
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. ...
IN BRIEF….OVER, UP AND BACK EDITION
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 ...
IN BRIEF…RETURNS AND DEPARTURES EDITION
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 ...
