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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...