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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 UPDATE: Tribune Media has hired a former news director and CNN executive to be its Senior Vice President of News. BART FEDER, who’s run newsrooms in New York, Boston, Sacramento, and Jacksonville, FL, will start March 2nd. Bart most recently served as Senior VP of CNN, where he worked for five years. He also spent seven years as President at CEO of The FeedRoom. Click here to read the news release about his hire, and you can see his Linkedin page by clicking here. He replaces KATHERINE GREEN, who stepped down in December after seven months. [More]
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Greetings: Another busy week, with FOUR new news director openings (two in top 30 markets) and FOUR newly hired news directors. My figures show 32 stations looking for a new news director. ONE of those 32 stations (in a top 20 market) is advertising its opening below, one of THREE paid help wanted ads. We have some updates to our list of Other News Management Openings, a handful of moves from news managers, and details on a TV station which is moving into a train station, and using one of our sponsors to design the set. And we have a [More]
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Monday, January 12, 2015 UPDATE #2: Two veteran news directors are on the move. First, PAT COSTELLO is returning to Seattle. He’s just been named News Director for KOMO-TV, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate there. He’s spent the last two years as ND for Scripps’ KNXV-TV in Phoenix. But Pat told me the lure of family is taking him back to Seattle: he has four children and two grandchildren there. Here’s the memo KNXV General Manager ANITA HELT sent to the staff. Before Phoenix, Pat spent more than a dozen years at KING-TV in Seattle, the first seven years as News Director [More]
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Monday, December 29, 2014 UPDATE: There will be no formal funeral for JIM BOYER, who died last Wednesday of esophageal cancer. He was 68. Click here to read the family’s suggestions for ways to celebrate his life. The link also includes suggestions for a memorial gift and for contact information for survivors, including his wife JAN ALLEN, herself a former news director and station manager. regards, Rick Gevers **** ***** **** Greetings: This week’s report, as you might expect during a holiday week, is brief thought with some interesting items. Sadly, one includes the death of longtime news director and general manager JIM [More]
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