MN ANCHOR ARREST DETAILS
Court papers are showing new details surrounding the arrest of a WDAY/WDAZ (ABC) reporter-anchor for domestic assault. 37-year-old Matt Henson was arrested on Sunday, ...
Category: People in the News
HE’S BAACK
Between multiple bouts with cancer, 32 rounds of chemotherapy, and throat surgery, the past 14 months have been a grueling ordeal for Phil Ferro. ...
THE LATEST LITIGATION
A jury decided Wednesday that former television talk show host Tavis Smiley, who was fired amid allegations of workplace sexual misconduct at the height ...
NEWSY IN THE NEWS
Scripps-owned streaming news service Newsy welcomes two new hires with some serious journalism cred. Amber Strong is the new politics reporter, focusing on the ...
30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Scott Pasmore marked 30 years with KTVK (COMET) Wednesday. Scott, a longtime anchor for Good Morning Arizona, graduated with a degree in Radio and ...
RUNNING FOR CONGRESS-AGAIN
Alan Cohn, a former news anchor with Sarasota television station WWSB (ABC), is running for Congress in Florida’s District 15. Cohn hopes to unseat ...
FNC HIRES VET AS CONTRIBUTOR
Retired staff sergeant Johnny “Joey” Jones is the newest contributor to Fox News Channel. He’s providing military analysis to FNC, Fox Business Network and ...
KCBS REPORTER LOOKS BACK
Longtime Entertainment Reporter David Sheehan spoke recently to the Los Angeles Times about his lifetime of interviews with the famous. Over the last year, ...
SWEET HOME CHICAGO
Kelley Bowles, a reporter at Nexstar’s WHBF in the Quad Cities is joining the Midwest bureau of NBC News in Chicago. You guessed it ...
MEANWHILE IN COLORADO
Viewers of KRDO (ABC) sports segments might have noticed a new face on their TV screens recently. Meet Danny Mata, the station’s new sports reporter/anchor. ...
HE EARNED THIS ONE
Longtime Dallas sportscasting legend Dale Hansen moved up another notch in the pantheon of tv newspeople who really and truly matter. The WFAA veteran ...
BEST WISHES FOR CHICAGO REPORTER ART NORMAN
Hundreds, if not thousands, of well-wishes have showed up on the Facebook feed of WMAQ reporter Art Norman since he revealed his diagnosis of ...
SWEET HOME CHICAGO
Livin’ the dream of working in his hometown is Eric Cox, the newest member of the newsroom at CBS-owned WBBM. The graduate of the ...
HAPPY NUMBER 15
Donna Terrell is celebrating 15 years at KLRT (FOX), where she anchors the 5:30 and 9 PM newscasts. Terrell’s News Director, Austin Kellerman had ...
THE PUBLIC SEEMS TO BACK FIRED FORECASTER
Yesterday we told you the story of Jeremy Kappell, the meteorologist at Hubbard’s WHEC in Rochester, NY, who was fired after he allegedly made ...
GLENN BECK PLAYS SANTA
Speaking of conservative news, Glenn Beck, who founded Irving Texas-based TheBlaze, paid off all the layaway accounts at a North Richland Hills Walmart on Saturday, two ...
FINALLY, WXYZ MAKES IT OFFICIAL
He’s been “filling in” ever since longtime anchor Stephen Clark retired in February. Now, Dave LewAllen is officially the permanent occupant of the co-anchor ...
BACK TO WHERE IT STARTED IN KC
Hearst’s KMBC in Kansas City, MO made some anchor changes, moving Emily Welsh back to weekends after six months doing weekday mornings.. That is ...
REDSTONE SHOPPING FOR MOONVES’ REPLACEMENT
It looks like Les Moonves’ days as CBS CEO may be numbered. There’s word that Shari Redstone, once closely aligned with Moonves and the ...
FOX NEWS UPS TWO BUREAU EXECS
Two Fox News veteran executives have new responsibilities with the network. Cherie Grzech, as the newly-named vice president of the Washington, D.C. Bureau, will ...
WCVB REPORTER TAKES ON ADDITIONAL DUTIES
Another one of the Hearst “Chronicle” programs also made a change this week. For WCVB reporter Nicole Estaphan, it’s a return to the program ...
IS MOVING FROM “FOX & FRIENDS” TO “THE VIEW” REALLY A STEP UP?
That’s the question we have for Abby Huntsman, currently a weekend denizen of the kurvy kouch and thus, on the second line of the ...
CNN’S ZUCKER TAKING MEDICAL LEAVE
CNN President Jeff Zucker announced Thursday he is taking a six-week medical leave for heart surgery. In fall of 2010, Zucker was diagnosed with ...
NEXSTAR HIRES NEW BOSS FOR BURLINGTON
Alexander von Lichtenberg is in at Nexstar’s WFFF-WVNY duopoly in Burlington, VT after spending 23 years in the Boston market with Univision, Entravision and ...
MASON GETS COMPANY ON WEEKENDS
Not one, but two…count ‘em TWO new co-anchors joined Anthony Mason at the desk on “CBS This Morning: Saturday.” Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson ...
ED SCHULTZ, FORMER MSNBC HOST – DEAD AT 64
Ed Schultz, who journeyed from right to left over the radio and television airwaves through the decades, is dead. Schultz, 64 years of age, ...
STEPPING UP FOR MOM
Working moms in newsrooms know this to be true – babysitters aren’t always available when breaking news calls or when you need to step ...
A LIFE IN NETWORK PR MAY REQUIRE MARINE EXPERIENCE
Michele Perez Exner, a former Marine Corps PA exec and press secretary for Sen Tim Scott, will join CBS News July 5 as communications ...
PREPARING FOR LAUNCH
Spectrum News’ not-yet-launched cable news channel in Los Angeles, CA named Cater Lee VP of News. She’s spent the last seven years as Vice President ...
DAILY MAIL POACHES FOXNEWS.COM EXEC
Noah Kotch is the new editor-in-chief of MailOnline, the digital counterpart of the Daily Mail. Kotch was previously the founding publisher of “Heat Street” ...
FORMER CNN HOST UNLOADS ON ZUCKER
A former CNN program host who lost his job when he tweeted that President Trump was a “piece of shit” and “a stain on ...
D-DAY APPROACHES AT KPIX
In the Bay Area, blogger Rich Lieberman is keeping a close eye on anchor Ken Bastida, as his contract time approaches. News director Dan ...
ACOSTA UNDER FIRE FROM THE USUAL QUARTERS
Even as most news media coverage of the Trump-Kim Summit moves from breathless coverage of the pageantry to a more critical assessment of what ...
HARTFORD TRAFFIC REPORTER MOVES TO PM
Well-regarded Hartford-New Haven traffic reporter Rachel Lutzker is switching around her shift after 20 years of mornings. That’s because WTIC, the Tribune owned Fox ...
DALLAS SPORTSCASTER GOING LATE-NIGHT
Call it a trade-off for veteran Dallas sportscaster Mike Doocy. In September, he’ll be giving up his daily sports segments at 6, 9 and ...
DC ANCHOR SHARES HER OWN STORY OF SUICIDAL IMPULSES
The tragic suicide of famed fashion designer Kate Spade this week led WUSA weekend anchor Debra Alfarone to go on the Tegna station’s Tuesday ...
SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN NORAH O’DONNELL?
Lots of hand-wringing is taking place at Black Rock these days as the “CBS Evening News” continues to shed viewers. And “Page Six” is ...
IT’S A FAMILY TRADITION
Four years after anchor Mark Wilson succeeded his father, legendary Tampa news anchor John Wilson, at Fox O&O WTVT in Tampa, was tagged as ...
FORMER COP NOW INVESTIGATING FOR TV NEWS
The new chief investigative reporter at Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT ought to know his stuff. He’s a former police detective. Former Hartford ...
AVLON LEAVES “DAILY BEAST” FOR FULL-TIME CNN ASSIGNMENT
John Avlon has been a familiar face since 2010 to anyone who regularly watches those CNN shoutfests. His regular job was editor-in-chief of “The ...
RETIRED CHI RADIO FORECASTER DISSES TV CO-WORKERS
Time has a way of erasing the filter most of us have that keeps us from saying…well..uncomfortable things in delicate situations. And that may ...
BASEMENT DWELLERS NEVER LEARN
This is the second time that WJAC meteorologist Mary Ours has had to put up with a cyber moron over her pregnancy. “Will people ...
…AND THE IDIOCY CONTINUES…
Then we travel down the road to Pittsburgh and Hearst’s WTAE where morning meteorologist Ashley Dougherty’s moronic correspondent lacked the courage to sign his/her ...
DOUBLE-DUTY IN CINCY
WCPO traffic reporter Jaclyn DeAugstino will be back on the football field for a second season as a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader. “The past year ...
HILTON CHOOSES FOX NEWS PLATFORM OVER HIS OWN COMPANY
Crowdpac, a nonpartisan political crowdfunding site on Tuesday cut ties with CEO and co-founder Steve Hilton, a Fox News weekend host. The company also ...
SECOND JOB FOR KMOV REPORTER
Laura Hettiger, morning traffic reporter and program host at Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis has picked up a moonlighting gig doing radio afternoon drive. ...
“BUELLER, BUELLER…”
A familiar deadpan face will soon be turning up on cable news networks (most certainly Fox News) to try to persuade President Trump to ...
IT WASN’T A TUMMY ACHE, IT WAS A HEART ATTACK
Mace Michaels, a freelance meteorologist for Fox O&O KMSP and Weather Nation in Minneapolis is recovering nicely, thank you very much, from a heart ...
GRAY NAMES FORMER SINCLAIR/BONTEN EXEC TO OMAHA STATION
Andrew Stewart is the new vice president and general manager of Gray Television’s WOWT in Omaha, NE. Stewart spent nearly eight years as vice ...
GRAY’S (SORTA) NEW ODESSA-MIDLAND GM
Gray also got around to making official the hiring of Don Davis as GM of its KOSA in Odessa-Midland, TX. Davis actually came on ...
SOUTH FLORIDA ANCHOR LOOKING FOR A CHANGE OF SCENERY
Word out of South Florida is that the agent for WFOR prime-time anchor Rick Folbaum is shopping him around and, if anyone bites, he ...
INDY ANCHOR REVEALS CANCER BATTLE
Andrea Morehead, the 5 & 11 pm anchor at Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianapolis, who’s been MIA recently, revealed the reason for her absence this ...
AMANPOUR TO BECOME PERMANENT CHARLIE ROSE REPLACEMENT ON PBS
Stay with us, now… CNN’s Christiane Amanpour will be replacing Christiane Amanpour who’s been the interim replacement for the departed and disgraced Charlie Rose ...
YEP, YOU REDDITTE RIGHT!
16-year broadcast vet Karla Redditte is poised to take her place at the anchor desk alongside WWBT’s Curt Autry later this month upon the ...
OLLIE NORTH WILL HEAD NRA. LOESCH IS SWOONING
It is a special sort of irony that the incoming president of the National Rifle Association is a guy who brokered illegal arms sales ...
TELEMUNDO ORLANDO NAMES NEW HELMSMEN
It’s a homecoming and a return to Telemundo as Luis Roldán and Roberto Vizcón take the lead roles at Orlando O&O WTMO Both veteran ...
FRIENDS OF ALS-STRICKEN VIDEOGRAPHER HAVE UNIQUE WAY TO HELP
As a videographer for Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins broadcasts, John Martin literally worked behind the scenes during his 19 years at NESN. ...
PORTLAND ND OUT THE DOOR
Sources tell us it’s the end of the road for KATU news director KyAnn Lewis after just over three years. Owner Sinclair decided to ...
WE NEED MORE WHA-A-AT?
Well, here’s something we never gave a second thought to, so aren’t we glad that HLN host Jane Velez-Mitchell is there for us? Velez-Mitchell ...
FORMER MYRTLE BEACH GM RESURFACES IN LAFAYETTE, IN.
When we last heard from Billy Huggins, it was December of last year and he was cleaning out his desk at Sinclair’s WPDE in ...
REID APOLOGIZES, CAN’T PROVE HACK CLAIMS
MSNBC host Joy Reid wants you to know she apologizes for the homophobic posts found on her inactive blog site, but she still doesn’t ...
DC ANCHORMAN ANNOUNCES CANCER DIAGNOSIS.
Bruce Johnson, the 30-year veteran of Tegna’s WUSA in Washington, DC has announced he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and will be taking time off to ...
WTTW NAMES NEW CEO
Well this should be interesting. Sandra Cordova Micek’s background is as a corporate marketing executive with no broadcasting experience whatsoever. So why not name ...
PHOENIX ANCHOR TIES TEACHER STRIKE TO POT LEGALIZATION
You did read that correctly, and if we didn’t know that “Fox & Friends” has no evident plans to add to the cast of ...
AVILA HOME RECOVERING FROM KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
Thanks to his brother Jaie, a reporter at WOAI in San Antonio, TX, ABC News correspondent Jim Avila, is back home recovering from a ...
WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING?
KGO reporter Mike Shumann is apparently in hot water with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, after being accused by the team of stealing a ...
CARLSON TO PRODUCE DOCS FOR A&E
First it was soon-to-be former ”20/20” host Elizabeth Vargas, now it’s Gretchen Carlson signing on to an overall deal with A+E Networks to create ...
VETERAN REPORTER QUITS BUSINESS OVER SINCLAIR
Suri Crowe used to be a reporter at Sinclair’s WSET in Lynchburg , VA. Last year, Crowe’s contract was not renewed and she was ...
HOUSTON FORECASTER VANISHES
Meteorologist Lisa Vaughn and Fox O&O KRIV in Houston have parted ways – rather suddenly and with no advance warning. Vaughn’s last day was ...
COULD “RV” BE THE NEW “PR?”
And by that we mean, could hitting the road become the preferable alternative to tv news burnout over a life in corporate PR? That ...
THE TIME 100
Listicles. News articles that are really nothing much more than lists. We can’t get enough of them so let us spend a little time ...
ERICA HILL BACK ON CNN FULLTIME
After two years as host of “On the Story” on sister network HLN while occasionally filling in on the main service, Erica Hill is ...
STACY RETURNS TO FT. MYERS AM TV
A little more than a year after WINK morning anchor Jennifer Stacy found herself blindsided by one of those news director “We’re going in ...
WHERE IN THE WORLD IN LINDSAY CZARNIAK?
This week, it’s at CNN where she is in the midst of a multi-week stint as a sports correspondent for the cable outlet. Since ...
CONSUMERS TAKE ANOTHER CHIN SHOT AT THE FCC
Federal Communications commissioner Mignon Clyburn said at the agency’s public hearing yesterday that she is exiting the FCC. Clyburn, one of the more vocal ...
REPORTER BACK ON THE BEAT IN INDY
Jenny Dreasler has resurfaced at Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN as a reporter. Dreasler exited Sinclair’s KHQA in Quincy, IL, where she was an ...
“GMA” DOES SOME PEOPLE SHUFFLING
First it was Lara Spencer making herself scarce as “Good Morning America” tries to press its ratings advantage with its core team of Robin ...
ANOTHER ADDITION TO CNN’S DC BUREAU
Sarah Westwood is moving over from the “Washington Examiner” to be the cable outlet’s latest addition to its White House press contingent. Westwood has ...
ADDING AN ANCHOR CHAIR
CNBC is moving veteran general assignment reporter Morgan Brennan into an anchor chair on its “Squawk Alley” program alongside Carl Quintanilla and Jon Fortt. ...
FORMER CINCY ANCHOR RETURNING TO TEEVEE
Scripps WCPO in Cincinnati is bringing back Clyde Gray, four years after the veteran ended his 33-year television career to start up his own ...
TEGNA NAMES NEW LITTLE ROCK GM
Tegna made it permanent for interim general manager Marty Schack at KTHV in Little Rock, AR. Schack, who’s been “interim” since Michael Caplan took ...
WABC REPORTER SUCKER-PUNCHED IN FIELD
Veteran WABC reporter Tim Fleischer was on the street recording a segment when an unhinged bonehead marched up to him and punched him in ...
SINCLAIR COLUMBUS NAMES CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
Sinclair’s WSYX has been without a chief meteorologist since Bill Kelly split in October to take the chief met job at sister station WJLA ...
INGRAHAM RETURNS
Laura Ingraham returned to her timeslot during the Fox News entertainment block last night after her seven-day “Fox vacation” (which has been enjoyed in ...
AND THE MOST-WATCHED CABLE HOST IS…
Rachel Maddow, which is causing the hearts of some folks we know to clutch up something awful. In the month of March, MSNBC’s “Rachel ...
FORMER TEEVEE ANCHORS WILL SHARE DETROIT RADIO MIC
We can now finish the title of the new WOMC (Detroit) morning program “WOMC Mornings with Stephen Clark and…” JoAnne Purtan. The recently-dropped WXYZ ...
TELEMUNDO SHUFFLES ITS MORNING SHOW FACES
Seven years after co-hosting “Un Nuevo Día,” Daniel Sarcos has left to host his own show in the Dominican Republic. After five years, Ana ...
“THERE’S A CRAZY PERSON OUT THERE TALKING TO HERSELF”
Being a multimedia journalist has some pitfalls that are….well…different. Take Meghan Schiller of CBS-owned KDKA here in Pittsburgh. She spent Thursday morning covering the ...
GEORGIA REPORTER SUFFERS OPEN MIC DISEASE
Sharifa Jackson, an MMJ with Raycom duopoly WTVM/WXTX in Columbus, GA quickly found herself immersed in social media hot water this week because of ...
CT. REPORTER RESURFACES IN ALBANY
Reporter-anchor Jacquie Slater, who exited Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT at the end of the year, has turned up in the New York capital ...
A FOLLOWUP AND A TRIBUTE
Yesterday we reported on the retirement of Marsha Thompson from Raycom’s WLBT in Jackson, MS. She spent all but three years of her 47-year ...
A PROMOTION FOR A HOMETOWN ANCHOR
The new prime-time news co-anchor at Sinclair-owned (through its Cunningham shell corporation) WRGT in Dayton is Megan O’Rourke, who was bumped up into the ...
CNN VET JUMPS TO ABC NEWS
After nearly two decades, Kyra Phillips is gone from CNN and is now reporting for ABC News based in Washington, DC. She will certainly ...
REPORTER OPTS FOR OKLAHOMA AND LOVE
Three years after joining WVIT NBC Connecticut in Hartford-New Haven, CT from Montgomery Al, our friends at the Laurel tell us that reporter Catalina ...
HOW A CAREER GOT BROKEN
“Texas Monthly,” never at a loss for interesting reading, this month gives us part one of a three-part story of an up-and-coming teevee reporter ...
MOVING FROM COAST TO COAST TO GO DIGITAL
Tommy Tran joins the CBS Sports Digital team as anchor-host at CBS Sports HQ in Fort Lauderdale, FL. For the past 5 ½+ years, ...
TEEVEE VETERAN GOING THE STREAMING ROUTE.
Chris Guarino, a 30-year television veteran, mostly as a producer at CNN and WETA in Washington, is joining “The Hill” as executive producer of ...
HOME AGAIN IN MUSIC CITY
Cody Murphy is the latest addition to the weather team at Meredith’s WSMV in his home town of Nashville, TN. The Middle Tennessee State ...
