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Thursday, March 6, 2025 UPDATE: Greetings: MSNBC reaches into the local news director ranks for its next Senior VP of News Gathering. But SCOTT MATTHEWS has plenty of national cable news experience, as well. He’s been the VP/News Director for WABC-TV in New York since October, 2022. He’d also spent nine years as ND for three FOX owned stations in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. He’s also worked for CNN, CNBC, and served as an EP for Investigative Reporting for stations in New York City and Phoenix. More on his background from his Linkedin page. Scott joins MSNBC as it [More]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 UPDATE #2 Greetings: Two news director moves of note today. SUZANNE NADELL will leave Cox’s WSB-TV (ABC) in Atlanta when her contract expires in July. This note from WSB General Manager MARIAN PITTMAN details Suzanne’s next move. Suzanne has been the ND here since 2019 and had previously worked as a news director at Cox stations in Pittsburgh (WPXI-TV/NBC) and Tulsa (KOKI-TV/FOX). She’s also worked in Tampa, Orlando, Ft. Myers, and Johnson City, TN, where she began her career as a producer/reporter. In a surprise move (at least to me) BARRY FULMER is returning to WDRB-TV [More]
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Friday, January 24, 2025 UPDATE: Another day, and another departure (at least for now) of another experienced news director. Today it’s CHERYL CARSON who will leave Sinclair’s WJLA-TV (ABC) at the end of February. Cheryl tells me she needs to spend more time caring for her elderly parents (her dad is 90 and her mom is not far behind). She also said she’s not done working in journalism, which she also expressed in this note she sent to the WJLA staff. She’s been the ND here since February, 2019, earlier spent three years as the ND for KING-TV (NBC) in [More]
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Greetings: It appears I missed a BIG discount or sale on GM and upper management hires, as TEN such moves were revealed this week. We have the details below in our GM section. THREE new news director openings and TWO new NDs were named, all the result of intra company moves. That brings the total of stations with ND openings to 42. ONE of those openings (in what sounds like a beautiful part of California) is featured in a Paid Help Wanted ad. Sorry to report the death of a longtime photographer who reinvented himself as a web expert. And [More]
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