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Wednesday, October 11, 2023 UPDATE: Greetings: Another new news director for a CBS o-and-o, and we have a clarification/correction on an item from Sunday’s full newsletter. MIGUEL FERNANDEZ returns to WFOR-TV as VP/News Director. He spent more than 22 years at this CBS owned station before leaving almost five years ago to be the Assistant ND at WLTV-TV, the Univision station in Miami. He began his career as a writer for WSVN-TV (FOX) in Miami. President/GM KIM VOET sent this note to the staff within the hour. And here’s the news release from CBS. Miguel replaces KERRI CAVANAUGH who stepped [More]
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Greetings: TWO new news directors named during this week, with NO new openings. 33 stations have news director openings, according to my admittedly unofficial list. There’s ONE Paid Ad this week, for an EP job in New York state. We welcome the return of Octopus as an advertiser. The company is promoting their appearance at the upcoming NAB show in New York where it will be exhibiting its latest version of its news production system. Check out their ad just below to learn more. One of America’s oldest journalism organizations, The Society of Professional Journalists. is facing some pretty severe [More]
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Greetings: TWO new news directors named during this week, with NO new openings. That means our list of places with open ND jobs drops to 33. And we have ONE Paid Ad this week, for an EP job in New York state. No GM changes. There’s ONE obituary for a longtime Miami newswoman who I was lucky enough to have worked with briefly. CARMEL CAFIERO was the first female reporter at Channel 7 in Miami and was a terrific investigative reporter. Read on for three good stories about her. The non-profit SciLine is back with another list of expert interviews [More]
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Greetings: A surfeit (I sneak that word in every year or two) of ND hires this week leads our report. SIX new news directors, with just THREE openings. Our list of stations with open ND jobs drops to 35. One of those 35 stations is among our TWO Paid Help Wanted ads this week. Just TWO items in Names in the News, ONE new GM in a top 20 market, and NO obituaries. And be sure to check out the ad just below. She’s been a news director (in Dallas), a GM (in Sacramento) and now MARIA BARRS adds author [More]
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