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Greetings: THREE new openings, including one created by a health-caused retirement of a 30 year news director, lead this week’s report. And we have THREE new news directors to share, leaving our count of open ND jobs at 27. We have a paid ad for ONE of those newly open ND jobs, along with SIX ads for management positions in a wide variety of markets. And we welcome a new advertiser, NowMachine, which promises to help you with breaking news coverage by automatically monitoring social media and police scanners alerting you to breaking news–before it’s even been reported. Check out [More]
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 UPDATE: The Detroit market, which hadn’t had an ND opening in more than three years, now has TWO with today’s resignation of TIM DYE as ND for Scripps’ WXYZ-TV. He’s returning to Grand Rapids as Vice President of TruscottRossman, a major Michigan strategic communications firm. Tim’s family has remained in Grand Rapids (where he spent 12 years as ND for WXMI-TV, the FOX affiliate there) for the 3 1/2 years he’s been ND at WXYZ. Tim also worked at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, where (full disclosure) I hired him as EP when I was the news [More]
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Thursday, August 30, 2013 UDPATE: Longtime FOX o-and-o News Director PHIL METLIN announced his retirement from WTTG-TV today, effective immediately. An email to him seeking more details was returned with this message: I have retired from my position as News Director here at WTTG effective August 29, 2013. If you need to contact our newsroom, please call 202-895-3002. Thank you. Phil’s been the ND in Washington since early 2008. He’d earlier held the same job at Fox owned stations in Philadelphia (WTXF-TV) and Tampa (WTVT-TV). It’s been a busy week with several new NDs to share with you. We’ll have [More]
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 UPDATE: A promotion within Tribune fills a news director opening in a top 30 market. KERRI CAVANAUGH, who’s been the ND for WXMI-TV in Grand Rapids, MI, for almost three years, heads south to become the next news director for WXIN-TV, the Tribune-owned FOX affiliate here in Indianapolis. Kerri’s also been the ND for Tribune’s WSFL-TV in Ft. Lauderdale, and has worked in Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Tuscaloosa, AL. At WXIN, she replaces LEE ROSENTHAL, who left the station last month to become ND for KTVU-TV, the Cox-owned FOX affiliate in Oakland/San Francisco, CA. More [More]
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