local news

Rob Elgas will join ABC O&O WLS Chicago (DMA 3) as a reporter and fill-in anchor effective July 7. Elgas joins WLS from WMAQ Chicago where he anchored the early […]

Grant Paulsen has been hired to cover the Washington Redskins for Fox O&O WTTG Washington, contributing to all newscasts and Fox 5 Redskins Game Time. Paulsen currently co-hosts a daily […]

Hearst moves her from KOAT Albuquerque, N.M., to lead the news department at its NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Ala.

With a range of new off-site distribution initiatives like Facebook’s Instant Articles proliferating, Ken Doctor writes, “We’re midst of a new volcanic digital movement and we have little idea what an end looks like.” Still, he argues, publishers need to take the future into their own hands if they hope to survive it.

News crews from NBC’s KNTV and Fox’s KTVU were robbed of cameras Thursday morning and a camera operator was pistol-whipped as they reported on a homicide at Pier 14 in San Francisco.

Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KTNV Las Vegas (DMA 410 has named Karla Huelga to its Action News’ Weather First team. She joins meteorologists Bryan Scofield, Greg Bennett and Carlo Falco on […]

Gone from the CBS O&O in Philadelphia are anchors Chris May, Kathy Orr and Sports Director Beasley Reece.

In a surprise to the newsroom, CBS-owned WBZ Boston has let go two key news managers. Peter Wilson, who has spent the last six years as the managing editor, is gone after being with WBZ for close to 20 years. And Greg Nickerson, WBZ’s digital assets manager for the past two-and-a-half years, is also out.

Anchor-reporter Curtis Jackson has joined the 7 Action News team at Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WXYZ Detroit (DMA 12). Jackson comes to the station from Cincinnati, where he anchored the 5:30 […]

Media General-owned NBC affiliate WAVY Norfolk, Va. (DMA 42) has added Luana Munoz as co-host of The Hampton Roads Show that airs weekdays at 11 a.m. Munoz is a veteran […]

Telemundo-owned WNJU New York (DMA 1) has named Alberto Rullán a fill-in anchor and reporter. In this role, Rullán will support all of Telemundo 47’s local newscasts, which air Monday […]

Mike McCardel is the new news director at Scripps-owned Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH. He succeeds Susan D’Astoli who left in February. McCarde joins from KTVT Dallas.

Bob Allen, sports director of KHOU Houston (DMA 10) has shared that he has been diagnosed with cancer. The cancer is a form of T-Cell Lymphoma and Allen says he is […]

Telemundo-owned WSCV Miami (DMA 16) today named Alejandra Molina co-anchor of Noticiero Telemundo 51 which airs at 5 and 6 a.m. on weekdays. Her first day on-air will be July 13. […]

Michelle Chism today was named assistant news director of Hearst Television’s NBC affiliate WBAL Baltimore, effective July 20. Chism has been assistant news director of KVUE Austin, Texas, since April […]

WSNS is the ninth Telemundo-owned station to launch a Telemundo Responde unit charged with speaking up for consumers who have been wronged.

A panel at the PromaxBDA Station Summit explains how those two important station executives can better communicate and cooperate.