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Greetings: We’re down to just 15 open news director positions, following a week in which FOUR positions were filled and just ONE opened up. And if you’re asking, that’s about as low a number that I can recall in 21+ years of keeping track. ONE of those open ND jobs is among our SIX paid help wanted ads this week. We also welcome The Kneeland Project back to these pages with an ad for an upcoming seminar. That’s just below. We now have details on arrangements for GARY HANSON, whose death from cancer we told you about on Thursday. That’s [More]
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Friday, May 19, 2017 UPDATE: I’m saddened to tell you that GARY HANSON died yesterday after a seven year battle with cancer. He was 66. During his career, Gary was a news director, RTNDA chair, and longtime educator at Kent State. Our friendship goes back more than 30 years. He was the news director at the CBS affiliate in Youngstown when I was at the CBS affiliate in Toledo. Gary nominated me when I ran for the RTNDA Board of Directors, and I returned the favor when he ran for chair. More details about his life and many accomplishments are [More]
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Greetings: We’re a few hours early this week as I’m in Las Vegas for the BEA and NAB conventions. RTDNA will hold what’s become an annual get-together this week at NAB. It’s Tuesday night at 9:00 at the Parasol Down bar at the Wynn Hotel and Casino. RTDNA leaders will be there along with other news types in down for the convention. I’m planning on being there, too. On to our normal business…we have THREE newly named news directors in this week report, and the ONE new ND opening was created by a promotion to a larger market. That leaves [More]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 UPDATE: Greetings: Once again, we have two items for you this afternoon. First, WNCN-TV, the Nexstar owned CBS affiliate in Raleigh, has named ED TRAUSCHKE as its next news director. Ed’s been the interim ND there since ANDREA PARQUET-TAYLOR left to become ND for KTVT-TV in Dallas. Ed’s no stranger to Raleigh: he was the Managing Editor for WRAL-TV for 2+ years in the late 90s. Ed most recently was the ND for KOTV in Tulsa. He’s also been an ND in Orlando and Little Rock, and began his career as a reporter. Also, veteran Poynter [More]
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