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Greetings: The first full week of 2013 brings a full newsletter, with TWO new ND openings and THREE new NDs to tell you about. Our list of open ND jobs now stands at 24. We have paid help wanted ads for FOUR of those openings, as well as an ad for an EP job in Birmingham. There’s an obituary for a longtime Texas ND and anchor, and some memorial information for WALKER MERRYMAN whose passing we reported last week. And there are lots of items in Names in the News, including a replacement for BRIAN BRACCO at Hearst, lots of [More]
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 UPDATE: Three, two…and now just one. That’s the number of news director openings here in Indianapolis after today’s announcement that TERRI COPE-WALTON has been promoted to ND for WRTV, the Scripps owned ABC affiliate. Terri’s been the acting ND since KEVIN FINCH left the station in November. She first joined the station in 1998 as the morning producer, was promoted to run the Community Affairs Department, and has been the Assistant ND for the last year. Both the first two of the three ND openings to close have both been filled from within. STEVE BRAY, also the [More]
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Greetings: Best wishes to all for a great 2013. We have ONE newly named ND this week, ONE new opening, and we’re removing one station from our list of openings (which I’ll explain below). Our figures now show 23 stations with ND openings. We have removed KHQ-TV in Spokane from our list of station’s search for an ND. NEAL BOLING remains the Executive News Director there. JANA GRAY, who recently left the station for an ND job within the same company, had held the title of News Director. She will be replaced, but that person will not have the title [More]
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 UPDATE: (Bold content updated Thursday AM 12/27/12.) I’m sorry to sadden your holidays with news of the death of PAUL STEUBER. Paul died Christmas Day in a hospital in Salisbury, MD, after a lengthy illness. He would have been 66 on January 10th. Paul most recently had been working as an in house consultant for WBOC-TV in Salisbury. His background was extensive, as well as his influence on those whose lives he touched. His complete work history can be found here on his Linkedin page. Briefly, he worked as a News Director in Cleveland, Miami, Baltimore, [More]
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