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At Birmingham’s WBRC, Angie Bierley moves to EP from her current role as digital content manager. Joey Parker, who’s been an ND a several TV stations and most recently ND for Missourinet, a statewide ...

IN BRIEF….COMING AND GOINGS EDITION

Bob Freeman is retiring from WEHT/WTVW in Evansville, IN at the end of November. He’s been an ND in the market for 21 years including time as the ND for WFIE-TV across town. GM ...

IN BRIEF…OPEN CHAIRS…OR NO CHAIRS AT ALL EDITION

News Press and Gazette’s KTVZ in Bend, OR is looking for a new news director. Nic Moye has been the news director there since 2016. Moye was also an ND for another Bend station ...

IN BRIEF…RESUME UPDATE EDITION

Tom Powell has been promoted to ND at Gray’s WPTA/WISE in Ft. Wayne, IN. He’s been the assistant ND (and an anchor). Learn more about his background here. He’s also worked in Memphis and ...

IN BRIEF….

There’s a another new ND at another Rochester station. But he’s not new to the station. Ed Buttacio returns to WHAM in Rochester, NY as the ND. Earlier in his career he was a ...

IN BRIEF….ELEVATIONS AND RETURNS EDITION

Scripps owned WTKR in Norfolk, VA has tabbed Allison Herman as its next news director. She’s been the assistant news director here for about a year but has a longer resume, which you can ...

IN BRIEF…ONWARD, UPWARD AND SIDEWAYS EDITION

Another Nexstar station fills an open ND job. Chris Babcock advances from Digital Content Director for KTSM in El Paso, TX, a job he’s held for the last year. His background, including a stint ...

IN BRIEF…LADDER CLIMBING EDITION

Another Nexstar station, (in this case, WSAV in Savannah, GA) another promotion within the company. Kathy Wideman comes from WJBF in Augusta, GA, where she was Operations Manager and Assistant ND. You’ll see in ...

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EN RESUMEN… EDICIÓN MOVING UP

Pedro Andrade is the new assistant news director at Telemundo’s KULX in Salt Lake City. He’s moving up from a producer slot at the station where he’s worked for the past two years. Prior ...

IN BRIEF….IN, OUT AND UP EDITION

Cathy Shallcross is moving up at New York’s WCBS where she has been promoted to Director of Streaming and Digital Content. She’s worked there for eleven years, beginning as the 5:00 producer before advancing ...

IN BRIEF…UPS AND OUT EDITION

Scripps-owned KSTU in Salt Lake City has promoted interim news director Stacey Roberts. Here’s the note from GM Tim Ermish. Scripps sent Roberts there as an interim from her job as Assistant ND for ...

IN BRIEF…MOVING UP, OUT AND SEARCHING EDITION

Sinclair’s WEYI/WSMH in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI is looking for a new news director to replace Neilie-Ann Giffune who spent almost three years of her ten years at the station as ND. Sinclair owns WSMH ...

IN BRIEF…BETTER LATE THAN NEVER EDITION

The ball kinda got away from everybody on THREE news director hires over the past few months, all at Cowles stations: KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA…hired PAUL BERGEN, formerly GM and before that news director at ...

IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND NEW VENTURES EDITION

Longtime news director Mark Neerman has launched a new venture, Indarra Media. He sent along this note which explains the new company, his first two partners, including a former network o-and-o GM, and news ...

IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND OUT EDITION

Nexstar reached into its ranks to fill a new position, Director of News Training. Kelly Hicks, currently the morning EP for WDAF in Kansas City, will implement a training program for newscast producers. She’s ...

IN BRIEF….CAREER SHIFTS EDITION

Congratulations to Jennifer Dale who advances within Gray, not to a new ND job, but to a new role as VP/Recruiting for Gray. More in this email from Gray SVP-Local Media Sandy Breland. Dale ...

IN BRIEF….BIG MOVES EDITION

Gray triopoly KGMB/KHNL/KFVE in Honolulu, HI has hired Scott Duff from sister station WSFA in Montgomery, AL. Duff has been ND there for almost 16 years. He issued this note reflecting on the past ...

IN BRIEF…NEW HORIZONS EDITION

Nexstar’s WJBF in Augusta, GA has posted an opening for news director to replace Scott Elledge, who has been the ND here for a long time. He reportedly has a new job lined up….but ...

IN BRIEF…SHUFFLING THE DECK IN ROCHESTER EDITION

In the first of TWO new ND openings in the market, Serena Romero has left Sinclair operated WHAM in Rochester, NY for personal reasons. She’d been the ND here for about a year, and ...

IN BRIEF….MANAGEMENT SHUFFLE EDITION

Rick Boone is being promoted within Nexstar to become ND for WHNT in Huntsville, AL. He’s been the news director for KARD-KTVE in Monroe, LA (more below) and has worked in a variety of ...

IN BRIEF….MOVING THE CHESS PIECES EDITION

In an inter-Scripps move, Andy Delancey heads north to WCPO in Cincinnati as its next Assistant ND. He had been an EP at WPTV in W. Palm Beach. After a long search, Hayden Elliott has ...

IN BRIEF…UPWARD MOBILITY EDITION

Stephanie Smith joins Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston as Managing Editor. She’s been working at KXAS (NBC owned) in Dallas. The new Assistant ND at Chattanooga’s WTVC (Sinclair) is Jonathan Brines who’s had a ...

IN BRIEF…..HAPPY RETURNS AND (SORTA) FOND FAREWELLS EDITION

Sarah Glover returns to Philadelphia to be VP/News and Civic Engagement for public tv station WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. She’s currently the Managing Editor for Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News, but earlier in her ...

IN BRIEF….COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION

Jeremy Settle is leaving this Altice USA’s News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Here’s the staff note from Altice’s SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Settle’s worked here for nine years, first as Assistant ND and, ...

IN BRIEF…UP, DOWN AND OUT EDITION

Astrid Ressler has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. Here’s her bio page from the station website. She joined the station as the producer for the 6:00, 10:00 and 11:00 ...

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IN BRIEF…THE MIDWEST EDITION

Christian Piekos gets back to his home area, joining Disney’s WLS in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. He’s coming from reporting and substitute anchoring duties at Gray’s KSLA in Shreveport and KPLC in ...

IN BRIEF…MANAGEMENT MOVES EDITION

Jim Wilson has left Fox-owned WITI in Milwaukee, WI after more than 30 years of service, the last three as news director. Wilson started at the station of as photographer, was promoted to chief ...

IN BRIEF….SHORT AND SWEET EDITION

Jason Walker started this week as the new Assistant ND for KBTX Gray’s station in Bryan, TX. He’s been the news operations manager and chief photographer at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin, TX. Coventry Adrian ...

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