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Monday, April 27, 2015 UPDATE: Two items in this morning’s UPDATE…a new ND and the winners of regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. First, a long vacant ND opening in the number one market has been filled by an internal promotion. AMY WALDMAN has been named news director of Tribune’s WPIX-TV in New York. She’s been at this CW affiliate for more than eight years and has served as Senior Executive Producer for more than a year. She’s also worked at Court TV, CNBC, and Fox News Channel, as well as in Buffalo and Erie, PA. Here’s the memo from GM [More]
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 UPDATE: A veteran news director rejoins his former general manager in a surprising move just announced…and a name change for the part of the company now called Gannett. ELBERT TUCKER, the news director for WBNS-TV in Columbus, OH, heads west on I-70 to become the next ND for WISH-TV here in Indianapolis. The move reunites Elbert with WISH General Manager LES VANN: they held the same jobs at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Elbert leaves WBNS, the Dispatch owned CBS affiliate in Ohio’s capital city, and will now compete against Dispatch’s only other station, WTHR-TV, the NBC affiliate [More]
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Greetings: By my count, there are still 27 stations looking for news directors after a week that saw ONE new opening and THREE open positions filled. Of note: all three positions were filled from within the station. Also, we erred last week in reporting GRIFF BENNER‘s move to Assistant ND at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, PA. That’s correct. However, his former job at WCAV/WVAW-TV in Charlottesville, VA, was filled in December by VAL THOMPSON, whose name I butchered in a item in our mid-week UPDATE. It’s bad when you have to correct a correction. No news director ads this week, but [More]
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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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