Tegna owned and operated WCHS/WLBZ in Portland/Bangor, ME are advertising for a new new news director. The records show that Karen Araiza had been the ...
Mark Casey continues to build his management team at Scripps’ KNXV Phoenix, adding Stacey Roberts as Assistant News Director. She’s spent the last 17 years at ...
Mitch Jacob, the news director for Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington, told the staff yesterday afternoon that he’s resigning. This email explains the reasons behind ...
Michael Raffaele joins Sinclair’s WACH in Columbia,SC Broadcasting as news director. He most recently was the ND for WTVA in Tupelo, MS…leaving there in September ...
Kathleen Johnston has joined Indiana University as a visiting professor of practice. She’s worked for CBS News, CNN, and WTHR in Indianapolis as well at two ...
The new news director at Chicago’s WGN is Jennifer Lyons, who replaces…herself as news director for this Tribune station. That’s right…Jennifer, who left her ...
Stephanie Wheatley has been promoted to ND for Sinclair Broadcasting’s KSNV in Las Vegas. She’s been the Assistant ND there and replaces Mark Neerman who left ...
Dave Kaplar will be the next ND for Gray Television’s WOWT in Omaha, NE. Here’s how General Manager Andrew Stewart told his staff. Dave most recently was ...
Mark Rigsby has been on the job since May as news director for WABG/WXVT/WNBD/WABG in Greenville, MS, a grouping owned by Cala Broadcast Partners. Mark ...
Melissa Hendrix-Beach is being promoted to news director for KWES in Midland/Odessa, TX. She’s been the Assistant News Director and replaces Michael Thompson who is returning ...
Susan Farley is being promoted to news director at Rockfleet Broadcasting duopoly WVII/WFVX in Bangor, ME. She’s been the Assistant News Director there since 2016 but has ...
Matt Johnson will be the next ND for Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, MI. He’s coming from sister-station KRCG in the Jefferson City/Columbia, MO market, ...
Congratulations to Yvonne Simons who returns to the ND chair at Sinclair’s KATU in Portland, OR. Simons has spent the last four years as the Assistant ...
Deana Reece, the news director for Nexstar’s WTWO in Terre Haute since January, 2014, died suddenly Thursday morning of an apparent heart attack. Nexstar’s VP/Local ...
Congratulations to TRACI ZERAVICA who’s been promoted to Director of Content and Marketing for parent company Cowles. She’s been the ND at KHQ-TV in Spokane, WA for ...
The management structure at Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, OH is undergoing some earth-shaking changes. Adam Miller has been named Director of Content for the station. ...
Scott Levy, who’s been the news director for Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City since August, 2016, has left the station. The other Meredith news directors ...
Jessica Bobula returns to Raycom Media as the new Assistant News Director for WIS in Columbia, SC. Jessica moves from Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, CA where she was executive ...
Several time news director B.J. Finnell returns to Hartford as the Director of Brand and Creative Development for Tribune’s WTIC. He’s a former ND at WVIT in ...
This week in news directing began with a bang… First: From Seattle, KIRO News Director Jake Milstein is leaving the Cox owned station later this week ...
Janet Hundley has been named VP/News for WVIT, the NBC owned station in Hartford. Here’s the note from General Manager Susan Tully (herself a former ND ...
Congratulations to Matt Van Slyke who gets his first ND job at Morgan Murphy Media’s duopoly KAPP/KVEW in Yakima, WA. He’s been the Assistant ND at KSBY in ...
Two management promotions at Sinclair’s WKEF in Dayton: Becky Gulden becomes Assistant ND. She had been an EP there. And Reba Chenoweth becomes an EP, she had ...
Andrea Parquet-Taylor has been named VP/Station Manager for KTVT/KTXA in Dallas/Ft. Worth. She’s been the news director at this CBS owned duopoly since January, 2017, and ...
WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC, has filled its Digital Content Manager opening by promoting Brad Dickerson. He’s been a digital content producer for that ...
Veteran broadcaster Dick Reingold is headed to WHEC in Rochester, NY, as its next general manager. Here’s the official word. That ‘official word’ has details on ...
Jeff Bardach is leaving Griffin Communication’s KOTV in Tulsa, OK. Todd Spessard, Griffin’s VP of Content, explained that Bardach is moving home to help with ...
Oscar Garcia is leaving Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi. TX after two years as news director. Oscar previously worked at KFOX in El Paso as an executive producer ...
Kay Norred moves to Nexstar’s WFXR in Roanoke, VA as news director. She’s been the ND at another Nexstar operation, WRBL in Columbus, GA, for almost ...
Mark Silberstein starts today (Monday) as the next news director for Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY. Mark most recently has been the senior producer at ...
Chuck Carter returns home to Philadelphia as EP for Fox’s WTXF. He had been the Assistant News Director for WTNH in Hartford/New Haven. Earlier in his ...
One time Chicago (CLTV) and Cleveland (WEWS) news director Jill Manuel is launching a new venture in Chicago, called JCat Group. Jill elaborated in this note: I ...
Chris Slaby joins Block’s WAND in Decatur, IL, next month as the station’s new assistant news director. He’s been working as a producer for Scripps’ WRTV in ...
Jim Bob Breazeale is joining Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, as its Assistant News Director. He’s been an EP for sister station KEYE in Austin, TX. He’s also ...
WALB in Albany, GA welcomes Jordan Barela as its news Digital Content Manager. Jordan had been working as Digital Manager and reporter for the Thomasville Times, ...
Chad Matthews has been promoted to VP/News Director of Disney’s WABC in New York. Finally. He’s been the Assistant News Director since returning to the station ...
Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC just filled its vacant morning EP opening with an internal promotion. Kim Ursich is moving up to fill the position. ...
The new “Senior Manager of Broadcast Content” (think Assistant News Director) at Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati is Kennan Oliphant. He’s currently the Manager of Coverage ...
Sarah Burgess is the newly-appointed news director of Cox Media’s WFXT in Boston. She had been the managing editor there, and replaces Mike Olivera who moved ...
Michele Gors returns to commercial television as she joins Quincy’s WAOW in Wausau, WI as its next news director. She’s a former ND in Wichita, Memphis ...
Congratulations to Brian Trauring who’s been named VP/News, Marketing and Content Development, for Lilly Broadcasting. It’s a return to Lilly for Brian – he was ...
Hearst’s KSBW in Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA has hired Kim Pinckney Eller as its new Assistant News Director. She most recently was an EP at Raycom’s WBTV in ...
Shawn Reynolds has joined AccuWeather as Director of Network Programming. Shawn says that means he’ll be editorial lead for the AccuWeather Network. He most recently was an EP ...
Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland announced that Brennan Donnellan will leave the station after the May book. General Manager Micki Byrnes explained Brennan’s plans in this email to staff. ...
Longtime station employee Joe Terrell ascends to the ND job for Raycom owned KLTV/KTRE inTyler/Lufkin/Longview, TX, succeeding the late Kenny Boles whose passing we reported in ...
Chris Avery returns to his native Montana as news director for Sinclair owned KECI/KCFW/KTVM which are branded as NBC Montana. Avery has been an EP ...
A former multi-market news director turned multi-market general manager has a new job. Mark Pimentel has been named General Manager of KRDO in Colorado Springs, CO. ...
Lon Lucas joins Quincy Media’s WEEK/WHOI duopoly in Peoria, IL as news director. He’s most recently been an executive producer for KLAS in Las Vegas, ...
Gavin Maliska has left WABG/WXVT/WNBD/WABG-DT in Greenville, MS owned by Cala Broadcast Partners after combining two companies, four stations, and two newsrooms into one ...
Katie McManus Faye has been named News Manager for Sinclair’s WTGS in Savannah, the FOX affiliate there. She’ll oversee the day-to-day newsroom operations and report ...
