Amy Waldman, most recently ND for New York’s WPIX, is serving as the interim director for the New York chapter of NATAS. Amy left ‘PIX in March. She became ND there in 2015 after ...
At Los Angeles’ KNBC, Renee Washington has been promoted to news director. She’d been the Assistant ND there since last fall, when she crossed the street from the same job at KABC. She’s worked for ...
Greg Retsinas moving into the big office at Tegna’s KGW in Portland, OR. He’s been at the station for five years in digital roles. His non-traditional background is detailed on his Linkedin page. Greg ...
Veteran news director Nancy Bauer heads east as an inter-Scripps company move to become ND for KTNV in Las Vegas, NV. She’s spent the last two years as ND for Scripps’ KERO in Bakersfield. Nancy replaces ...
Another Tegna station, another news director opening as Linda Kotsaftis is leaving KUSA in Denver, CO. She’s a 20 year veteran of the station and has been News Content Director since last July. Her replacement will ...
A veteran news manager takes his SIXTH job (by our count) with the same company. And he’s never had to move. Chip Mahaney is leaving his job as news director for Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati to ...
Carolyn Mungo, who’s been ND for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas since early 2012, is now the station manager there. Her promotion was announced along with one for the station’s general manager, Brad Ramsey, as detailed ...
Kyle Brinkman moves within Nexstar to become news director for WSPA in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. He’s spent the last 2+ years as ND for the company’s WCBD in Charleston, SC, and earlier was ND for just ...
John LaPorte, who’s been VP/News for Tribune’s WITI in Milwaukee since September, 2010, is leaving that FOX affiliate. That’s according to this note from General Manager Chuck Steinmetz. As alert readers may have noticed, the ...
There’s a new Assistant ND for Gray Television’s WBTV in Charlotte. Molly Kelleher has been promoted to fill the vacancy created when Kim Saxon was promoted to news director. Saxon sent this note to the staff. Kelleher’s ...
Adam Wilhelm joins Quincy-owned WBNG in Binghamton, NY as news director. He most recently worked for WOFL-TV in Orlando, and has also worked at stations in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Louisville. At WBNG, he replaces John Laughrin who ...
A veteran news director who spent more than 20 years as ND for one station lost his battle with cancer this week. Ed Wickenheiser was 80 years old when he died Monday in his hometown ...
Adam Henning will be the next ND for Cox owned WHBQ in Memphis, TN. Details in this official news release. We told you last month that Henning was leaving Sinclair’s WPECin West Palm Beach after ...
Samantha (Sam) Cohen will be the next Chief Content Officer for Rocky Mountain Public Media in Denver, CO, a PBS news operation. CEO Amanda Mountain (perfect last name, don’t you think?) sent this email ...
Molly Miossi has been promoted to Senior Manager of Editorial Operations at Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. She returned to her hometown of Cincinnati back in 2016 from WBBM. At that time, she came on board as ...
News 12 Westchester has a new assistant news director. Pauline Chiou joins the Altice owned 24 hour news operation from CNN International, where she was an anchor and correspondent. She’s also worked for CBS News, ...
Larry Price died over the weekend at his Rhode Island home. He was 71 and passed away with his family, including his wife of 49 years, Charlene, at his side. His former AP colleague Bob ...
Stan Kowalski will run Altice-owned News 12 cable news in The Bronx/Brooklyn cable news operations. He’s spent the last eleven years as the Assistant ND for sister operations News 12 Westchester and Hudson Valley. News ...
Todd Mokhtari heads down I-5 to become GM of the NBC stations in San Diego, KSND/KUAN. He’s an NBC veteran, having spent the last seven years as ND for KNBC in Los Angeles, where he ...
Congratulations to 27 year station veteran Dave Overacker who’s being promoted to ND for Hubbard Broadcasting’s WHEC in Rochester, NY. He most recently has been the Assistant ND here, and started at the station ...
Craig Hume is headed north to be ND for Hubbard Broadcasting’s KAAL in Rochester/Austin, MN. Here’s the station’s news release. Many of you know Craig, whose career as taken him from ND jobs in Los ...
Scott Saxton will leave this Gray Television’s WECT in Wilmington, NC when his contract expires in May. Saxton says he and his wife have bought the local franchise for Soccer Shots, which he describes as Soccer ...
Les Vann, who’s spent the last years two years as GM of Meredith’s WHNS in Greenville, SC, told his staff this afternoon that he is leaving to concentrate on his battle against Parkinson’s. More in ...
We told you last week that veteran tv news executive Kirk Varner was headed for Minneapolis and the ND chair at Hubbard’s KSTP. Let us now remind you that Varner is leaving Nexstar’s WSPA ...
Kristen Shill is being promoted and will replace Dan Schillinger as the ND for Quincy owned WQOW in Eau Claire, WI. She’s currently the Assistant ND there as you’ll learn in this memo from GM Dave ...
Kirk Varner heads north to become the next news director for Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTP in Minneapolis. Here’s the news release distributed moments ago by the station. We told you yesterday that Kirk was leaving his ...
Kirk Varner has announced that he is stepping down as news director of Nexstar’s WSPA/WYCW in the multi-hyphenated Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville/Anderson market. Kirk has been with the stations since August, 2015, arriving there after a four and ...
Darcy Bonfils has joined Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY, as its assistant news director. She’s worked in New York City, most recently as an EP for Spectrum NY1. She’s also worked at WABC, WGCL in ...
John Kirby is the new news director for Nexstar’s KREX in Grand Junction, CO. Kirby has what you could easily call a non-traditional background for a news director. He replaces Geoff Roth who left earlier ...
Dan Schillinger is retiring after a long career, the last five years of which were spent at Quincy owned WQOW in Eau Claire, WI. He’s calling it a career after 46 year in the business, ...
Vickie Burns has been named news director for Tribune’s WPIX in New York City. According to her Linkedin page, she worked as a consultant for Tribune from 2013-2015. Burns has run newsrooms for NBC owned ...
This time it’s Dean Elwood, the soon-to-be former VP/News for Tegna’s KFMB in San Diego. He’s gone at the end of this month. Here’s the memo from General Manager Alberto Mier Y Teran. Dean’s been ...
LA’s NBC-owned KNBC has filled its morning executive producer opening by luring Valerie Gratias from cross-town rival KTLA. She’s been the AM EP for the last two years and worked there as a producer for ...
From the “Maybe it’s not you, it’s us” department…. Tiffani Lupenski has parted ways with Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. She was ND there for less than a year and a half. Her replacement ...
Amy Sullivan will be the next news director for Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX. She is currently ND for sister station KVII in Amarillo, TX. Sullivan has also worked in Tulsa, Wichita, and Alexandria, LA. ...
Jamie McCutcheon has been promoted to news director for Sinclair’s WCTI/WYDP in New Bern, NC. She’s been the interim ND there since Eric Olsen left to become ND for WTKR in Norfolk, VA. McCutcheon first joined ...
Tracie McKinney is out after six months as ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, NV. She was the interim ND for three months, filling in after Mike Dello Stritto left to return to Sacramento as ND ...
Meredith’s Atlanta station, WGCL has a new Assistant News Director –and it should come as no real surprise. As we told you several weeks back, Karen Araiza had been working there on an interim basis since ...
John Laughrin proves you CAN go home again as he returns to his native Green Bay as ND for Scripps’ owned WGBA in Green Bay, WI. He’s been the ND for WBNG in Binghamton, NY, ...
Veteran news director Patti McGettigan died Saturday afternoon in Memphis, just two months after she took a medical retirement from Cox-owned WHBQ. McGettigan was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. She also survived a ...
We sadly report the passing of former KCEN (Temple, TX) News Director and Anchor Tony Hennes. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because we just told you just a couple of weeks ago that ...
Tammy Phillips joins Nexstar Media Group as Senior Corporate Recruiter for News and Marketing. She most recently had held a similar role for Raycom Media before that company was combined with Gray Television. Tammy spent 17 ...
Chad McCollum is leaving Nexstar ‘s KSEE/KGPE duopoly in Fresno, CA after six years as ND (and 12 at the stations) to take a job in Clovis, CA, where he lives with his family. He’ll ...
Cheryl Carson will start February 18th as news director for Sinclair Broadcasting’s WJLA-TV (ABC) in Washington, DC. She spent the last three years as ND for Tegna’s KING/KONG in Seattle and worked there for ...
Bridget Foster will be the next ND for Spectrum News in Raleigh, NC. She’s spent the last seven years as an executive producer for Spectrum’s Tampa operation, Bay News 9. Bridget’s also held news management positions ...
Joe Inderhees has been promoted to news director for this Tegna duopoly WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, FL . He’s been the Assistant ND, first joining the stations in 2016 as Content News Manager. Joe’s also worked ...
Bryan Luhn has left KRIV, the FOX o-and-o in Houston, to take a job out of TV. He says it’s with Myriad Global Media, a media outfit that works with big companies to help them tell ...
We told you last week that the ND opening in Scripps KMTV in Omaha, NE would soon be filled… and….it is…by GEOFF ROTH. This is Geoff’s eighth news director’s job. He’s leaving KREX (Nexstar) after about ...
Warren Stewart returns to his home region as the next news director for WEVV in Evansville, IN, owned by Bayou Broadcasting. Here’s the news release. Warren tells me his mother is battling some health ...
Two items of note today. First, a news director opening at a top 15 station, with news that CHERYL CARSON has left Tegna’s KING-TV (NBC) in Seattle after three years as ND. General Manager JIM ROSE sent this note to the ...
Mike Redding returns as ND for Tegna owned WLBZ/WCSH in Bangor/Portland, ME. GM Brian Cliffe told the staff. Mike was ND there from 2013-2016 before transferring to Tegna’s KVUE in Austin, TX and later to WUSA, Tegna’s ...
Rick Gevers has a few moves of note this week. Mark Ginther started this week as Sinclair‘s Director of News and Operations. Mark has been a News Director in Seattle, Des Moines and recently ...
As we indicated last week, the open news director job at Scripps’ WFTS in Tampa wasn’t open for long. Sarah Moore will be that station’s new news director. She’s been the Assistant ND there for ...
Scripps on Wednesday picked up KXXV/KRHD in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas, and WTXL in Tallahassee, Fla. from Gray as that company completed its absorption of Raycom. As a by-product, a Florida news director became a Florida ...
Janice Gin is headed to the islands as she takes her first news director’s job at KITV in Honolulu. Here’s the story from the station’s website. She’s spent the last 20+ years in the San ...
News director Patti McGettigan is leaving Cox’s WHBQ in Memphis on a medical retirement. She’s battled breast cancer for years and survived a heart attack this fall. Cox’s VP/News Mike Dreaden shared this news in this ...
Susana Schuler stays in Alabama but moves 90 miles north to become general manager for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham. All the details in this news release. She’ll replace veteran broadcaster Hank Price who is retiring. Many ...
Matt Waggoner, currently the Assistant News Director for Tribune’s KCPQ in Seattle, has just been named news director for the company’s WTTV/WXIN in Indianapolis. Here’s the note GM Jamie Aitken sent the staff. Waggoner’s been ...
Corrie Harding gets a new title at NBC News. He’s now VP/News Partnerships, up from Senior Director News Partnerships. Harding reports to SVP Dianne Festa. Many of us know Corrie, who’s a former news director in ...
Jessie Garcia is being promoted to a position called broadcast director at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee Diane Irving held that position before leaving in October, and she had earlier held the title of Assistant ND for this ...
GARY WORDLAW is leaving Nexstar operated WVLA/WGMB in Baton Rouge, LA for a new job that we hope to be able to share with you later this week. Gary’s been the ND here for 3 ...
Victor Venegas has been promoted to news director for Nexstar owned KTSM in El Paso, TX. He’s been the Nightside EP there. His GM, David Candelaria had this to say: Victor is a true team player, ...
Travis Sherwin is moving within Hearst. He’s leaving WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL after almost two years as ND (and 20 with the company) to become the executive producer for the company’s investigative unit based ...
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 ND there since November, 2016. So two years and gone. ...
Scott Fitzgerald heads across the country to become ND for Scripps owned KJRH in Tulsa, OK. Scott is currently the ND for KRNV/KRXI, a FOX/NBC duopoly in Reno, NV, a job he’s held for about ...
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 KPNX-TV in Phoenix, which means that she worked with Mark when ...
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 his departure. His last day will be this Friday, November ...
Yve Jones is leaving Hearst’s WAPT in Jackson, MS. Hearst news executives have been asked to confirm the vacancy and were slow to respond to inquiries, even though the job was listed on the ...
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 after not quite two years as ND. He’s also worked ...
Chuck Maulden has been named Director of Content for Griffin owned KOTV in Tulsa, OK. The company’s VP of Content, Todd Spessard, dispatched this note. Maulden has spent the last six years as ND ...
Elizabeth O’Hara has left Nexstar owned KTSM in El Paso, TX after two years as news director. This article points out she left at the start of the November book AND as the station is moving ...
La’Qunta Dixon returns to TV news (after some time away for a health issue) as she started this week at WJCL in Savannah, GA as Executive Producer. More from news director Sinan Sidar. La’Qunta is a former ...
Eric Olsen returns to Tribune as ND for WKTR/WGNT in Norfolk, VA. The news release is yours for a simple click here. Eric’s spent the last 18 months as ND for Sinclair’s WCTI/WYDO in New ...
James Hallman crosses the street in Washington, DC to become an Executive Producer at FOX-owned WTTG. He previously was an EP at Tegna’s WUSA. Hallman has also worked in New York, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg, PA.
George Kiriyama joins Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas as managing editor. He’s been the Managing Editor at NPG’s KCOY in Santa Maria, CA for the past four years. Kiriyama began his career as a reporter, ...
Carlton Houston will be leaving his gig as Assistant News Director for Tegna’s WUSA at the end of the November book. Houston told Rick Gevers he’s looking for a great new challenge. He’s a former ...
Kathy Hostetter, who’s been the ND for Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianaopolis, is leaving to become ND for KDKA in Pittsburgh, the CBS o-and-o in the Steel City. Kathy’s been ND in Indy for about ...
Casey Clark will move west to become the ND for Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City. Here’s the note from GM Chuck Poduska to the staff. Casey has spent the last 2+ years as ND for Hubbard’s ...
Rick Gevers sends along word of the death Tuesday morning of retired news director Don Bradley (real name: Don Burian). Don was a former news director in Hartford, Ft. Wayne, Waco, and Victoria, TX, ...
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 Indianapolis newspapers, primarily as an investigative producer and reporter. The ...
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 job in August after four years as ND and 25 ...
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 to become ND for KPIX in San Francisco earlier this ...
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 the Assistant ND for WEWS-TV in Cleveland. He’s a former ND ...
Warren Stewart has left Scripps owned KJRH in Tulsa, OK after about a year and a half as news director. He was the interim ND there before the promotion, on assignment from Scripps’ WEWS ...
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 most recently was an EP for Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. ...
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 to KLTV in Tyler, TX, as executive producer. Here’s his departure ...
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 worked in Maine most of her life. Sarah replaces another ...
Dave Busiek, who’s been news director for Hearst’s KCCI for 29 years (not a typo), is retiring at the end of the year. He spent another 10 years at the station as a reporter ...
Kevin Osgood is leaving Nexstar’s WFRV in Green Bay, WI for a bit of a career change. He’ll be the next executive director of the Door County (WI) Maritime Museum. While that may sound unusual, ...
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, where he’s been for two years. Matt’s worked for another ...
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 ND for KOVR/KMAX, the CBS owned duopoly in Sacramento. Earlier ...
And that is how the boss described the Friday resignation of Chris Kline, the news director for the last 4+ years at Scripps’ KNXV in Phoenix (the ABC affiliate in market # 11). General Manager Anita Helt details ...
The wheels keep turning and the doors keep revolving. This time, a Twin Cities tv station has finally gotten around to hiring a Number One in the newsroom, but not until after some restructuring. ...
Longtime Birmingham News Director (and, more recently a GM in Roanoke) Garry Kelly heads to Augusta, GA, where he started this week as the GM for Raycom’s WFXG. Well…Raycom for now but the station is ...
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 Content Development Jerry Walsh sent this email: Deana was a tremendous ...
Tracie McKinney gets her first ND position at Scripps’ KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, NV. She’s been the interim ND since Mike Dello Stritto left in June to become ND for KOVR/KMAX in Sacramento. McKinney most recently ...
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 two years in her third stint at the station. (She earlier ...
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. He’s spent pretty much his entire career at the “Today ...
