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October 8, 2017

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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October 1, 2017

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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July 30, 2017

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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July 23, 2017

Greetings: Another busy week, with FOUR newly named news directors and TWO new openings. Among those new news directors is one who’s been an ND in THREE top 20 markets…and is now in market 108. Those changes mean our list of open ND jobs drops ever so slightly to 22. THREE of those open ND positions are featured among our FIVE paid help wanted ads, which features openings in a wide range of markets. And we have lots of items in Names in the News, including another news manager moving across the street in Denver. We’ll try to answer some [More]

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