By Paul Greeley A local TV station in Miami, WFOR, the CBS-owned station, airs a story about a 70-year-old man living without air conditioning for more than a YEAR in the scalding hot summer ...
By Paul Greeley In June, Tegna’s 44 news producer draft picks gathered for a week of training in Denver at KUSA, Tegna’s NBC affiliate there. The graduating college and university students are this year’s ...
By Paul Greeley A Norfolk police officer had his camera rolling as he pulled a woman from a submerged car in a massive sinkhole, according to a story by Markeshia Jackson, an anchor/reporter at ...
By Paul Greeley In April 2026, KPRC, Graham’s NBC affiliate in Houston, announced its commitment to accountability journalism, reporting that asks hard questions, examines systems, and pushes for answers when something isn’t working the ...
By Paul Greeley It’s time to submit for the the 2027 duPont-Columbia Awards. The deadline is July 1, 2026. Founded by Jessie Ball duPont in honor of her late husband Alfred I. duPont, for ...
As newsrooms shrink, media companies consolidate, and communities lose access to trusted local information, a new WRAL documentary explores what is at stake for North Carolina. “Left Uncovered: Inside North Carolina’s News Deserts,” produced ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kellie Burns, a journalist with 36 years of experience in TV news, is retiring this week from Gulf Coast News, the ANC and NBC affiliates in Ft. Myers, and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KTVT, CBS Texas, couldn’t let a tornado cancel a middle school’s field trip to the Texas Rangers game for the ‘CBS Texas Weather Day’. So after deadly storms forced ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andy Mehalshick, lead I-Team reporter for WBRE/WYOU, branded as 28/22 News, Nexstar’s NBC and CBS affiliated stations in Wilked-Barre/Scranton has announced his retirement. Mehalshick says he has been diagnosed ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Three local CBS TV stations in California, in partnership with the San Francisco Examiner, will host a live California gubernatorial debate on Thursday, May 14, offering undecided voters another ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Starting Monday, May 4, WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago, the NBC-owned station, is airing a weeklong, five-part NBC 5 Responds: Doctor Deficit series led by PJ Randhawa, WMAQ’s consumer investigative ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WPHL, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Philadelphia, is bringing Temple University student-produced programming to PHL17+, the station’s new Connected TV (CTV) streaming app. PHL17+ features live programming from PHL17 and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ryan Kath, a TV investigative reporter at WBTS, branded as NBC10 Boston, the NBC-owned station in Boston, exposed the ordeal of an elderly Boston homeowner who had a ‘tenant ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com This is not a breaking news story. In fact, this story is from 2021 and the reporter who did it retired after nearly 40 years. But when I came ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lisa Gresci, a reporter formerly at WHDH, Sunbeam’s independent station in Boston, has joined WFXT, the Cox-owned Fox affiliate, amid recent staff changes across Boston television news stations. Gresci, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Talk about perfect timing. I may live in the Philly area, but a TV news story by a Boston reporter hit me at just the right time. The sun ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The debate between the candidates, Maria Lazar and Chris Taylor, for the open seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court at WISN 12 studios on Thursday, April 2, 2026, from 7:00 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: In my experience, there aren’t too many local newspapers in the country that publish articles about the local TV stations in their markets. News Blues scours the internet ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Often, frustrated consumers who’ve tried everything to resolve their problems in a dispute turn to their local TV news for help. And in many cases, one phone call from ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: In my experience, there aren’t too many local newspapers in the country that publish articles about the local TV stations in their markets. News Blues scours the internet ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com De’Jah Gross, a reporter for WCPO, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Cincinnati, was working on a story about an icy and snow-covered path that students and parents needed to negotiate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com January 27 is designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KSBW, Hearst’s NBC and ABC affiliate in Salinas, California, is celebrating the success of the second annual KSBW 8 Community Blood Drive. The four-day event held January 23 through ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com How icy were the roads in Wichita Falls, Texas, this weekend? Icy enough for Michael Bohlin, the chief meteorologist at KFDX, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate there, to ice skate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jana Shortal, a reporter for KARE, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in the Twin Cities, was pepper sprayed in Minneapolis just after ICE agents shot and killed a second person ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com November is National Adoption Month and WTVR, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Richmond, devotes 30 days during the month to help find 30 kids a loving family. Bill Fitzgerald, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com An email from a mother to KELO, branded as KELOLAND, Nexstar’s CBS, MyNetworkTV, and CW affiliated stations in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, turned into a mother’s special Christmas ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Eliott Rodriguez announced his retirement from WFOR, branded CBS Miami, in November. His last day was Friday, Dec. 19. You certainly can read all about Rodriguez’s tenure at ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This column was written by Leslie Bridgers, a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, and printed by CentralMaine.com, the online hub for news and information ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bennett Haeberle, an investigative reporter at WMAQ, NBC Chicago, the NBC-owned affiliate there, uncovers allegations of sexual misconduct and grooming involving several educators at the same Chicago ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Broadcasters exist to serve the community, sometimes one viewer at a time. That was how Mike Rajewski began a post on social media sharing a story that KAKE, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You can see a lot of emotions on display at the airport. And I’m not talking about the out-of-control behavior some travelers exhibit when things don’t go their way ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KMSP, the Fox-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, created a new documentary about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior 50 years ago. “I’m proud of our FOX ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KFOR, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, has been named one of nine recipients of the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards, the only local TV station to do ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news can be a powerful force when the story shows how someone turned tragedy into triumph. Especially when the tragedy hits someone through no fault ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Approximately 50,000 to 62,000 children are adopted from foster care each year in the U.S., according to recent data. And around 108,000 to 114,000 children are ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you’re having a bad day and need your faith about the good in people restored, I recommend you watch this story by Jacob Brooks, a multimedia ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There were 11 hurricanes in 2024, 5 reaching major hurricane status. One, Hurricane Helene, brought unfathomable damage, death and destruction to the western areas of the Carolinas, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On June 1st, CBS announced it was moving its 31-year affiliation with WANF, Gray’s station in Atlanta, to the CBS-owned WUPA beginning August 15, 2025. That’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Talk about the power of local TV news, and its news anchors. KHOU, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in Houston, aired a story about a woman who was ...
