WTOL in Toledo, OH is a Tegna station with a first time ND. Lauren Weppler has been promoted from her old role as Assistant ND. She’s been at this CBS affiliate since April 2006, ...
Dana McDaniel is leaving Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City to return to California as Director of Content for KFMB, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in San Diego. McDaniel’s previously had been ND at KTVU in Oakland/San Francisco, ...
At WCMH in Columbus, OH, Denise Eck returns to Ohio as she joins the Nexstar station as ND. Here’s the email from GM Ken Freedman. Earlier in her career, Eck was a news director ...
Longtime newsman Matthew Zelkind is the new EP for Sinclair’s KATU in Portland, OR. Zelkind is a former ND in Nashville (twice), Las Vegas, and Wichita, worked as a station manager in Richmond, VA, ...
Jennifer Dahl was announced as the next ND for Meredith’s KPHO/KTVK in Phoenix, AZ. GM Kevin James told the staff in this email. It’s a return to KTVK for Dahl, who was a producer ...
Morris Multimedia owned WWAY in Wilmington, NC has an ND opening posted on its website. Our records show Kevin Wuzzardo has been ND here for five years and has worked there for 13. He’s ...
The ‘nationwide search’ for a new news director for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas ended up…with someone already in the newsroom. Leslie McCardel has been promoted to Executive News Director. The full story is in the station’s ...
Neille-Ann Giffune has been promoted to news director for Sinclair operated WEYI in Clio/Flint/Saginaw, MI. She’s been the Assistant News Director here for the last seven years. Her background is a little different: Giffune ...
Jim Wilson has been upped to ND for Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WITI in Milwaukee, WI. Details here. He’s a 30 year veteran of the station, starting as a photojournalist, moving to chief photographer and, in 2017, ...
Lane Kimble is leaving Rockfleet Broadcasting’s WJFW in Rhinelander, WI to be the Assistant News director for Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, MO. Lane’s been ND here since November 2017 and had earlier worked there ...
After just four months on the job, Adam Wilhelm has left Quincy Media’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. He most recently worked for WOFL in Orlando, and has also worked at stations in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, ...
Rebecca Gaylord is leaving Hearst’s KOCO in Oklahoma City, OK at the end of August. General Manager Brent Hensley shared the news in this email. She’s been there six years and earlier worked for ...
Becky Lutgen Gardner is leaving Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids, IA but will stay through the transition. She’s been the news director here for almost six years, putting an end to a six news ...
Michele Gors returns to a newsroom as she’ll take over this Quincy Media’s KTTC in Rochester, MN. Gors told Rick Gevers she’s from northern Iowa so it’s a return to familiar territory. She’s a ...
Sinclair Broadcasting’s KAEF in Eureka , CA is looking for a news director to replace Scott Rates who was both ND and anchor there. Sinclair’s West Coast Group Manager Jeff Parsons says the station is looking for ...
Tonya Estes joins Nexstar’ s WCBD in Charleston, SC as its next news director. She’s been the Assistant ND for Hearst’s WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach, FL, for the past two years, and has also worked ...
Congratulations to ANNA BAXTER who has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WV. She’s been the Assistant News Director there, and has worked her way up to the top job (with a brief ...
Charlie Haldeman has decided to resign as ND for Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX. Here are two emails for you in one simple click: the note from GM Adam Chase as well as Charlie’s to the ...
Keith St. Peter will join Nexstar operated WBRE/WYOU in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA next month as its next news director. Keith has been Managing Editor at WHIO in Dayton, OH after almost three years. He previously served ...
Dave Ciliberti is leaving WCMH in Columbus, OH, to take over sister Nexstar NBC station WFLA in Tampa. WCMH General Manager Ken Freedman told his staff via this email. It’s a return to Tampa for Ciliberti, ...
Steve Watt, who’s been the GM for Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City since April 2017, is returning to Nashville as Director of Sales and Station Manager for Meredith’s WSMV. Here’s the note he sent ...
Gray’s WAVE in Louisville, KY has named Dan Fabrizio as news director. It’s an inter-Gray move for Dan, who’s spent the last eight years as ND for WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WV. He’s also been an ...
Brian Neal joins WLEX in Lexington, KY, owned by Scripps, as its next news director. He’s been the Assistant ND for Hearst’s WXII in Winston-Salem, NC, for the past eight years. Brian’s also worked ...
Angela Green will be the new morning anchor at Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee. We told you a few weeks ago that Green was leaving her news director’s job at Lockwood Broadcasting’s WFXG in Augusta, GA. She ...
Mike Canan is the new news director for Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. Canan’s been the interim ND there for the last month or so since Chip Mahaney returned to the Scripps mother ship across town. ...
David Williams reunites with Denise Vickers as he’s been named news director for Lockwood Broadcasting’s WFXG in Augusta, GA. He’s currently the ND for Gray’s KCBD in Lubbock, is a former ND in Lake Charles, LA, ...
Taz Painter’s leaving Tegna’s WBIR in Knoxville, TN in early August. General Manager David Hunt shared the news with the staff in this email. This is Taz’s second stint at WBIR: he was managing editor ...
Ryan Minnaugh has left his job as news director for Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa. He’d been there just over one year following a 2 1/2 year stint as ND for WTKR in Norfolk. There, he ...
Steve Koles has re-emerged as the new news director for Nexstar’s WROC in Rochester, NY. Koles most recently worked as ND for WBNS in Columbus, OH, a job he abruptly left in March after a ...
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 ...
