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 ...
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 learned of the change in a remarkably terse email from ...
Word out of Texas says KXAS VP/News Mark Ginther has left the Dallas station. The staff learned of Ginther’s departure in a meeting with the general manager today. He’s been the news director for this ...
Nichole Cyprian is the next news director for Raycom’s WALB in Albany, GA. It’s a promotion for Nichole, who’s been the Assistant ND for the past year. More from GM Jim Wilcox in this staff memo. ...
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 producer. She previously worked as a producer for KOLD/KMSB, the Raycom ...
Scott Pickey returns to a newsroom as the next ND for Gray’s KOSA in Odessa, TX. Scott most recently was the ND for WOAY in Oak Hill/Beckley, WV. He’s been an ND in Wilmington, NC, El Paso, ...
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 Hartford as well as two stations in Providence. For the ...
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 for a ‘new adventure’. Here’s the very classy note he ...
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 in Dallas) to the staff. Janet most recently was 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 San Luis Obispo and has worked in San Francisco (two ...
Bari Soash stays within Raycom as she takes over the news department for WTOC in Savannah, GA. Here’s the staff email from GM Larry Silbermann. Bari is currently the ND for Raycom’s WALB in Albany, GA, ...
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 been the Senior News Producer.
It’s been exactly one year to the day since we last reported a cross-town news director move. And that’s what we have this morning, with news that Keith Connors will be the next news ...
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 has a long career in news. Parquet-Taylor’s been an ND ...
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 Raycom station.
Matt Goldberg, currently the Assistant News Director for KNBC in Los Angeles, has a new job. He’s off to New York (where his fiancee lives) to become VP/Content Strategy for the NBC owned stations. Here’s the ...
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 Dick’s extensive background, including a GM in a number of ...
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 family issues. He’s been ND here for just over a ...
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 for almost six years. He also worked for four years ...
Tom Petner died over the weekend. His daughter posted the news on social media Sunday. “My dad had a great passion for television news and technology. He was a successful newsroom manager who made ...
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 three years. Kay’s been an ND for WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA and has ...
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 WNEM in Flint/Saginaw, but has worked in a number of places ...
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 career, Chuck was an ND for a WB affiliate in ...
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 have recently launched JCat Group, which offers services to newsrooms and ...
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 Indianapolis, and has worked in Albany, NY, and (twice) in ...
Phil Buehler is the new ND for Gray Television duopoly KOTA/KEVN in Rapid City, SD. He’s been in the job since April and replaces John Petersen who retired in April after 24 years as ND. ...
There’s a new news director at WLOS in Asheville, NC as the current ND, Julie Fries, gets a promotion. We’ll tell you about Julie first. She’s headed to WLOS owner Sinclair Broadcasting as a group ...
The new AM Content Manager for Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati is Katie Simon. She’s been working in Boston for the past four years at Sunbeam’s WHDH. She’s also worked in Tampa. Simon starts July 2. ...
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 worked for Sinclair’s KABB in San Antonio.
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, which is owned by WALB’s parent company, Raycom Media. This ...
Quincy’s WAOW in Wausau, WI has reopened its search for a new news director. We told you a few weeks ago that Michele Gors would be the next ND here. Unfortunately a family situation developed ...
WBTS, the NBC owned station in Boston (and branded as NBC Boston) just named Ben Dobson as its new news director. Ben is currently the ND for NBC’s Hartford station, WVIT. He won’t have trouble finding ...
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 last year, after five years as Assistant ND for NBC’s ...
And it’s a return to Sacramento for Mike Dello Stritto, who was announced as the new ND at CBS duopoly KOVR/KMAX late yesterday. Mike, who’s currently the ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, ...
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. She’s been a producer there for five years, after working ...
Karin Movesian returns to the ND chair as she takes over at Meredith’s WNEM in Saginaw/Flint, MI. Here’s the note from GM Julie Zoumbaris to the staff, which also details Karin’s work history. She replaces Ian ...
Mike Gonzalez is leaving Morgan Murphy Media’s duopoly KAPP/KVEW in Yakima, WA, where he had been both ND and anchor. He has a new on-air job at KPNX in Phoenix. Mike’s been the ND here for a ...
Dan Delgado will be the next news director for this Nexstar’s KCAU in Sioux City, IA. He’s been the Assistant News Director for sister station KSNT in Topeka. Dan’s been an ND in Laredo and Tyler, TX, ...
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 and Content for Cox’s WHBQ-TV in Memphis. Oliphant’s had a variety ...
In Harrisburg, PA, Ed Albert joins Tribune’s WPMT as an executive producer. He had been a producer at Nexstar’s WHTM in York. Albert has also been a producer at KDKA, Pittsburgh and WJAC, Johnstown. He replaces Toshi ...
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 to Cox’s WSOC-TV in Charlotte. Here’s the news release from Cox.
Mark Little returns to Raycom Media as ND for WLBT/WDBD in Jackson, MS. Little most recently was ND for Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, SC, a job he left in March after almost two years. He spent 14 ...
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 and Cedar Rapids, but spent seven years as GM for ...
Alex DeLeon has been promoted to news director at WTVO/WQRF in Rockford, IL. He has been an executive producer for the station in his second stint for this Nexstar/Mission Broadcasting opoeration. He has also worked ...
Debi Highland started May 1 as the new news director for WNKY in Bowling Green, KY owned by Marquee Broadcasting. She comes from a print background: her complete history is detailed on her Linkedin page. ...
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 working at WTVG in Toledo, OH when it was a ...
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 Charlotte, and has also worked in Roanoke as a producer ...
A veteran news director fills the open ND job at Meredith’s KVVU in Las Vegas. Tom Bell will be the new ND. He’s spent the last five years as ND for the CBS Sacramento duopoly KOVR-KMAX. ...
Scott Pickey is out as the news director for locally owned Thomas Broadcasting’s WOAY in Beckley-Oak Hill WV after about 18 months. Scott and his GM, Dennis Adkins, were both released on the same day. ...
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 for Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, news director for WTVM/WXTX-TV in Columbus, GA, ...
We told you last week that Kelly Frank was leaving Columbus, OH, and Dispatch-owned WBNS to be closer to her mother who is ill. She achieved that goal with Thursday’s news that she’ll be ...
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. Donnellan shared via email that he couldn’t talk too much ...
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 February after more than 20 years as ND. GM Pat ...
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 for KSTUin Salt Lake City for almost five years, and ...
Kelly Frank is leaving Dispatch-owned WBNS at the end of May after not quite three years as ND. Here’s the memo from GM John Cardenas (also a former WBNS news director) to the staff. Kelly ...
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. That’s the ABC affiliate there owned by News Press & ...
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, and has also worked in Toledo, Cincinnati, and Baton Rouge. ...
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 facility. Maliska had worked for the Frontier Broadcast companies for ...
Chris McDaniel, who was a news director in a number of markets with a strong investigative background, died March 24th in Baton Rouge, LA, at the age of 70 after a brief illness. After ...
Morgan Schaab has been promoted to news director for Block Communications’ WAND in Decatur, IL. She first joined the station as a producer in 2008, and has been both Assistant ND and Managing Editor ...
Mark Little resigned on Friday as the ND at Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, SC. Here’s the note he sent his staff. He spent almost two years as ND here, and 14 years as ND ...
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 to Victoria Spechko who’s the ND for sister-station WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach-Florence, ...
Jeff Kiernan is returning to WTMJ in Milwaukee as Senior Director of Local Content. (You and I might call that news director.) The full story is here. Kiernan is currently the news director for WBBM, the CBS ...
Another day, another news director moving to the GM chair. Dana Neves, the long time (well, at least since 2006) news director for Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford. Here’s the news release with more details. ...
The soon-to be empty news director job at Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa will be filled by Ryan Minnaugh, currently holding down the news director job for Tribune’s WTKR in Norfolk. And guess who his GM was ...
WLBT/WDBD (Jackson, MS) ND Hatton Weeks returns to KAIT in Jonesboro, AR as GM. He was the ND at KAIT for eight years before moving to Jackson three years ago. Here’s the staff memo. Both stations ...
Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville is advertising for a new news director. Which means that DAVID SEALLS, who had been the ND for almost four years, is out the door. He previously worked in teevee ...
Scott Picken has resigned as news director for Nexstar/Mission Broadcasting WTVO/WQRF in Rockford, IL. He’s been the ND here since September, 2012. He’s been a news director in Rockford (twice), Boise, ID twice, Cedar Rapids, ...
Greg Schieferstein has left Idaho Broadcast Partners’ KPVI in Pocatello, ID after not quite two years on the job, his second time as ND here. Greg’s also been a news director in Peoria, Augusta, GA, ...
April Williams, a veteran of the Washington market, joins her FIFTH DC news operation as she becomes executive producer at Fox o-and-o WTTG. She’d spent the last ten years at WRC, the NBC o-and-o there, ...
News director turned corporate executive turned GM Mike Stutz is retiring as GM of News Press and Gazette’s operations in Palm Springs, CA. With one click here, you can read both Mike’s note to ...
Veteran news director Bob Rockstroh moves within Nexstar to become ND for WFFF in Burlington, VT. Bob’s been the ND at WETM in Elmira since November, 2013 and has previously run newsrooms in Providence, Hartford, and Ft. ...
J Bates (no, that’s not a typo and no, I don’t know if it stands for anything) has been promoted to ND for Scripps’ KIVI in Boise, ID. He’s been the digital director there, ...
Mike Oliveira leaves Cox’s Boston outlet WFXT to become news director at sister station WSOC in Charlotte, NC. Mike’s a Boston native and has been ND at WFXT since August, 2016: before that he spent ...
The above move means Julie Szulczewski has left WSOC, where she’s been the ND for almost seven years. She’d been the managing editor there for three years before leaving for about a year to be ND ...
Rob Tompkins has left Nexstar owned WFXR in Roanoke, VA after about 2 1/2 years as news director. He’s held a number of jobs in and out of our business, as his Linkedin page details. ...
Mandi Johnston Mendoza is the new news director for Sinclair’s WOAI/KABB in San Antonio, TX. She’s been the assistant news director most recently and first joined the station as an investigative producer in 2003. She’s ...
Cowles-owned KFBB/KHBB in Great Falls, MT has promoted Megan Lewis to news director. She’s been an executive producer there for the past 18 months. Megan replaces Deyja Charles who is now an executive producer for WBRZ-TV in ...
