WHERE IS HE NOW?
If you’re wondering whatever happened to Storm Field, who, once upon a time, was a fixture in New York tv news, check out this ...
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FORMER KDKA REPORTER A YEAR INTO HER DREAM JOB
We’d love to tell you who wrote a rather absorbing profile in the “Pittsburgh post-Gazette” of former Pittsburgh tv reporter/anchor/attorney Julie Grant, but there ...
SMALL MARKET, BIG IDEAS
Rich O’Dell, president and general manager of Tegna’s WLTX in Columbia, SC has become a fixture in the market after 20 years. So we ...
PUBLISHED AGAIN
WKMG anchor Lisa Bell is bringing back Norman The Gnome for her second children’s book praising gardening. “Norman the Gnome has Colorful Friends” is ...
‘I’LL WAKE UP ONE DAY, AND THERE GOES ANOTHER PART OF ME’
We remember fondly the many times we watched Mike Adamle cover NFL Football for NBC years ago. He later made a profound mark on ...
A FOX BURR UNDER THE TRUMP SADDLE
Fox News Pentagon correspondent Jennifer Griffin has seen her high profile move a bit higher in recent weeks, due to her critical reporting of ...
RIPLEY: BELIEVE IT OR NOT
If you’re interested, here’s a profile of Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley who, these days, bears a startling resemblance to Junior Trump. The beard is ...
LIFE AFTER GATEWAY CENTER
For Pittsburgh weather addicts, it continues to be a mystery as to why and how former chief meteorologist Jeff Verszyla ended up abruptly parting ...
HOMETOWN BOY MAKES GOOD
“The Toledo Blade” helpfully provided significant column inches to relate the hiring of John Burchfield as the newest member of the weather team at ...
CHARLOTTE ANCHOR SHARES HER GOOD NEWS
For the past decade, Kristen Hampton has been known known to Charlotte, NC tv news viewers as the person who brings them the “Good ...
A SUMMER READING LIST
Ever since we saw the movie “Network” predict the future of tv news back in the 70’s, we’ve always been fascinated by attempts to ...
WANNA DO SUPERHERO MOVIES? START ON A MORNING SHOW
That’s how Paul Zbyszewski got his start. He was a producer on “Fox Thing in Morning” for Fox-owned WFLD back in the 90’s when ...
BARTIROMO GOES WITH WHAT SHE KNOWS
Maria Bartiromo’s campaign for a new contract at Fox Business is on. After five years at the cable outlet, her contract is up for ...
SHE HAD MANY “FIRSTS”
We ran across an interesting story profiling the nation’s first female tv meteorologist, and we’re passing it along. It’s worth the read. June Bacon-Bercey, ...
A WOMAN OF LETTERS
When we last paid attention to Sorboni Banerjee, she had just been promoted to weekend anchor at Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa, FL. That was ...
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH….CHRIS WALLACE???
Yeah, he’s a little insecure and feels he doesn’t get the attention he feels is his to get. “Honestly, I think I’m better,” he ...
A FORMER ANCHOR’S SECOND LIFE
It’s been two years since Diana Pierce stepped away from the anchor desk at Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis, ending her 32-year tenure with the ...
ALBUQUERQUE’S KOAT PROFILES AN ALUM
Will Carr once reported news on KOAT, the Hearst station in Albuquerque, NM, but that was before he left the station back in 2013 ...
TINY HEARTLAND HAS BIG AMBITIONS
Heartland Media ain’t no Sinclair, or even Nexstar. But the 11-station group has its own ambitious plans on both the OTT and voice platforms. ...
“THERE WAS SOME DOUBT I WOULD LIVE THROUGH IT”
Former WILX news director Kevin Ragan is a stroke .survivor 18 months ago, Ragan was on the job at the Gray-owned Lansing, MI tv ...
PAULEY MASTERS THE ART OF REINVENTION
“How do you get from the weekend edition of the big news at Channel 8 in Indianapolis, to one year later, almost to the ...
BUILDUP BEGINS AS CUOMO PREPARES MOVE TO PRIME TIME
Chris Cuomo signed off from “New Day” for the last time Thursday and he prepares to shift around his day and take on the ...
HEARING THE CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE
For David Brody, these are the best of times to be a White House correspondent. Brody works for CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network. During ...
HOUSTON METEOROLOGIST SHREDS ON THE SIDE
In the tv news business, it is always good to have a fallback position, just in case things don’t go as planned, career-wise. Mike ...
A DAY IN THE LIFE…
Let us now examine the hectic life of Celia Pompeani – morning traffic reporter and night-time tv producer/host for PensTV, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ tv ...
UNWINDING ON THE ICE
Some reporters take their weekends to unwind, sleep in, maybe party a bit and gear up for the next week. Evelyn Holmes, a reporter ...
FROM THE BILLINGS BEAT TO NCIS SCRIPTWRITER
If you’re going to have a life after tv news, this isn’t a bad one to have. 17 years ago, Brendan Fehily was a ...
FORMER PHILLY ANCHOR BACK AT WORK ON PASSION PROJECT
Back in 2015, longtime Philadelphia anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah took a temporary leave from her job at WCAU after her husband, former Congressman Chaka Fattah, ...
A LOT OF NEWS IS A CARTOON SO…
How about a “comics journalist?” It could be the next big thing and that’s not a bad idea. Scripps WCPO in Cincinnati hired one ...
PERINO’S STAR RISES
Fox News’ latest rising star on the news end of things is Dana Perino, host of an afternoon news hour and a panelist on ...