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Greetings: Two veteran NDs make up the TWO new NDs in this week’s report. With ONE new opening, our count of open ND jobs now stands at 21 stations looking for a new news director. We have paid ads for THREE of those opportunities, as well as ads for TWO executive producer positions and ONE Managing Editor at an NBC o-and-o. Names in the News features a handful of news managers with new jobs, and several GM moves as well, including a former Belo executive landing an executive position with Tribune. I wanted to correct some mistakes I made last [More]
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Monday, December 16, 2013 UPDATE: Gary Coursen 1958-2013 Greetings: I’m very sorry to report the death of WKBN/WYTV (Youngstown, OH) news director GARY COURSEN. We told you just last night that Gary was hospitalized in Cleveland fighting cancer in his brain and sinuses. He lost his battle this afternoon around 12:25, with his family by his side. The station has posted this obituary for the longtime employee, who first joined the staff as a photographer in 1979 and rose through the ranks to news director, a job he held for the last ten years. Your note of condolence can be [More]
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Greetings: For the second consecutive week, our report features ONE new opening (in the second market) but NO new openings, bringing our list of open ND jobs to 21. We do have ONE paid ad for one of those openings, as well as new ads for an Assistant Operations Manager in Atlanta and several consumer positions for Telemundo in Dallas. In Names in the News, several medium market news managers are on the move, we have details about the retirements of TWO longtime General Managers, and an obituary for a very long ago Toledo news director. All that and move [More]
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Greetings: We’re delayed by travel (more on that below) and a compelling Colts-Texans Sunday Night football game! This week’s report features ONE new opening (in the second market) and THREE newly named news directors. bringing our list of open ND jobs to 20. We have a paid ad for ONE of those ND openings, as well as ads for a corporate ND position and three news management positions in a variety of markets. And there’s just one item in our Names in the News category..please send me your news. I mentioned travel above…I spent most of the week in Churchill, [More]
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