KHOU Names Bruce Executive News Director

Philip Bruce, a television news veteran with more than three decades in broadcasting, is rejoining Belo’s KHOU Houston (DMA 10) where he was an award-winning reporter and Washington bureau chief from 1985 to 1995. Bruce will be executive news director and will assume his duties at the CBS affiliate in mid-March. He succeeds Keith Connors who left as news director last year.

“Philip knows the television news business from all angles — behind the desk and in the trenches,” said Susan McEldoon, KHOU president-GM.  “His experience in top-10 markets is extensive and we are looking forward to his return to Houston and his KHOU family.”

Bruce covered hurricanes, politics and everything in between during his first stint at KHOU. Besides his years at KHOU, Bruce has an unbroken string of broadcasting experience in Dallas, Washington and Los Angeles. He ran the Washington bureau for KDFW Dallas and was news director at KCET Los Angeles.  He also was a reporter at L.A.’s KTLA.

Most recently, Bruce has been a deputy national editor and a senior network news manager for NPR. He also served as managing director in charge of NPR West in Culver City, Calif., NPR’s largest broadcast center outside of its home base in Washington.

Bruce earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.