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Thursday, October 29, 2020 UPDATE: Greetings: A top 10 market network owned station has a new news director today. That’s one of two changes in this update. JESSI MILLER BRADLEY has been promoted to news director for CBS’s WBZ-TV in Boston. She’s a 23 year veteran of the station, having joined as a producer in 1997. More in this post. Most recently she’s been the EP for CBSN Boston, the station’s streaming service. She replaces JOHHNY GREEN, Jr., who was promoted to VP of News Services for CBS News last July. And one more promotion makes MATT SINN the next [More]
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Greetings: I need to start this week by thanking those of you who sent kind notes after last week’s newsletter, where we shared the news of the establishment of the Rick Gevers-Karen Burns Diversity Fund for College Journalists at IRE. And Karen and I would particularly like to thank those of you who sent donations to IRE to help grow the fund, which provides on campus training at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and on other campuses for the benefit of student journalists of color. More details from the IRE website. And if you’d like to join [More]
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Greetings: I hope you’ll allow me a personal note before we turn to our normal business. Earlier this afternoon, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) announced the establishment of the Rick Gevers-Karen Burns Diversity Fund for College Journalists. This endowed fund will provide on campus IRE training at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and on other campuses for the benefit of student journalists of color. More details from the IRE website. Karen and I added this to our wills in 2016, but recent events convinced us the need was too important to wait for what (I hope) will [More]
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 UPDATE: Greetings: A network o-and-o news director gets a new job with the network. JOHNNY GREEN, JR., who’s currently the news director for CBS’s WBZ-TV in Boston, has been named VP of News Services for CBS News. That means he’ll oversee CBS Newspath, the affiliate news feed service. More details here. Johnny’s been ND for WBZ since August, 2016, when he was promoted after ten months as assistant ND. He’s also worked in New York Philadelphia, Raleigh, Charlotte (two stations), New Bern, NC, and Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC. Congrats to Johnny. We’ll have more on this story [More]
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