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Friday, June 18, 2021 UPDATE: Greetings: A veteran ND moves to his second top 15 market in today’s UPDATE. PHIL BRUCE, who’s currently the news director for Sinclair’s KTUL-TV (ABC) in Tulsa, moves within Sinclair to take over the newsroom at KOMO-TV (ABC) in Seattle. He posted this to his Linkedin account. Phil’s been the ND at KTUL for five years. He grew up in nearby Arkansas. Before that he spent five years as ND for KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston. Phil started as a reporter in Ft. Smith and held a wide range of jobs as his Linkedin page will [More]
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December 15, 2020 UPDATE: Greetings: In today’s UPDATE, a network owned station gets a new news director, and a longtime St. Louis anchor moves into management. BERVETTE CARREE returns to North Carolina as the next ND for ABC’s WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham. She is currently the Nightside EP for Tegna’s WXIA-TV in Atlanta, a job she’s held for the last 18 months. More here. Bervette earlier worked at another Raleigh station and in Charlotte and Greensboro/High Point. She’a also worked in Philadelphia and for CNN. At WTVD, she replaces MICHELLE GERMANO who left the station in July after almost five years [More]
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December 8, 2020 UPDATE: Greetings: Another day brings news of a number of news management changes in a top ten market station. Today it’s Tegna’s KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston which has named LIZ ROLDAN as its next news director. She’s a longtime Miami newsperson, having spent the last nine years as ND for CBS o-and-o WFOR-TV. Liz replaces SALLY RAMIREZ who departed earlier this year after four years as ND. She is now an EP of The News with SHEPARD SMITH on CNBC. In addition, KHOU named STUART BOSLOW as its Innovation Director. He’s currently Director of Content for sister [More]
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Greetings: FIVE new news directors to share in this week’s report, with NO new openings. That drops our list of open ND jobs to just 21. And TWO of those open ND jobs are among our THREE paid help wanted ads. We have lots of items in Names in the News with lots of news managers on the move, and, for the first time in a few weeks, we have a new GM to tell you about. And…for those of you working in newsrooms…good luck on Tuesday night. I’m having cold pizza Tuesday night in your honor. Newly Named News Directors: [More]
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