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Greetings: I need a raise! We sent out FOUR mid-week updates this week (available to email subscribers) and that only covered some of the moves this week. We have SEVEN new news director openings (THREE in top 20 markets), while THREE other jobs were filled. Consequently, our list of open ND jobs jumps to 23. FOUR of those 23 openings are featured among our SIX Paid Help Wanted ads below. Our Situations Wanted feature returns this week with a posting from a Florida newsman looking for his next opportunity. And in Names in the News, the police praise an Atlanta [More]
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Thursday, June 8, 2017 UDPATE: It’s been a busy week with UPDATES on THREE consecutive days, but this one contains good news as a veteran news director returns to the job. This afternoon DANA McDANIEL was named news director of Tribune’s WDAF-TV in Kansas City. She replaces TRACY BROGDEN-MILLER who was promoted to General Manager and sent this note to the staff. And we have the official news release here. Dana was most recently ND for Fox’s KTVU-TV in Oakland/San Francisco. She’s also been the ND for Fox o-and-o’s in Detroit (WJBK-TV) and Washington (WTTG-TV). It’s also a return to [More]
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Greetings: We’re delayed due to the holiday and a lot of news this week, but as is our custom in this space, we pay tribute to the winner of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. On to business: How low can it go? We speak, of course, of the number of open news director positions, which drops to just 13 after THREE new news directors were named. And again, I’m not aware of NO new openings. ONE of those open news director jobs is among our SEVEN paid help wanted ads. Be sure to check out out Names in the News. In addition [More]
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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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