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December 29, 2017 UPDATE: We always take special pleasure in reporting news people moving to the general manager’s chair. Today we get to do that, and, for the first time in memory, this person has never been a news director but certainly has lots of news experience. LANA DURBIN-SCOTT will be the next GM for Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, the ABC affiliate there. She’s currently senior director of news strategy and operations for Scripps, overseeing news strategy for the company’s local news brands. She has spent her entire career with the company, which details her background in this news release. [More]
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Greetings: It’s been a good week for the THREE people who took new news director jobs this week. Heck, it may have been a good week for the ONE news director whose opening was created by his upcoming retirement. That means 25 stations have news director openings according to my figures. Of those openings, ONE is featured in a paid help wanted ad, along with an ad for an EP job in the midwest. The National News and Documentary Emmys were announced this week. We have the details. A news related website has a new operator. An Atlanta station hires [More]
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Thursday, October 5, 2017 UPDATE: Greetings: One of the THREE Tegna News Director openings has been filled. (WUSA-TV and WTSP-TV are the others.) TIFFANI LUPENSKI has just been named News Director for Tegna’s NBC affiliate in St. Louis, KSDK-TV. Here’s the official news release with more details. It’s a return to the company for Tiffani, who worked as an Executive Producer for six years at what was then Gannett’s KUSA-TV in Denver. Tiffani most recently worked as ND for KGTV (Scripps/ABC) in San Diego, a position she left in August after 2+ years. She earlier had been an ND for [More]
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Greetings: A very slow week..with just ONE news director opening and NO new news directors, to the best of my knowledge. So our list of open ND jobs drops ever so slightly to 23. ONE of those openings is among our THREE paid help wanted ads. We have an obituary acor a long-ago Missouri news director. And in Names in the News, a new Assistant ND in San Francisco/Oakland, a former ND takes a morning anchor gig, a longtime TV research makes a move, and we’ll tell you something you may not have known about a well known former Las [More]
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