Scott Hums is promoted to director of content while Nicole Block becomes news director.
The veteran news executive will oversee journalism at the Manship ABC affiliate in the state capital starting next month.
It’s a homecoming for the former Dallas-based bureau chief for the CBS News southern bureaus, who was assistant ND at KTVT-KTXA in 2004-06.
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She gets the position permanently after being both interim news director and assistant ND at Tegna’s NBC-ABC duopoly in Jacksonville, Fla.
WJBF, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in Augusta, Ga., promoted John Hart, co-anchor of WJBF’s 4:30, 5:30 and 10 p.m, newscasts, to oversee the news department.
Exclusives
The former assistant news director at WIS Columbia, S.C., is tapped by Fox Television Stations to oversee journalism at its Milwaukee O&O.
CBS News and Stations choses the former news director of WTKR and WGNT, the E.W. Scripps-owned CBS and CW affiliates in Norfolk, Va., to take over journalism at the duopoly.
The Scripps ABC-independent duopoly in Detroit moves him up from interim news director.
WABC New York news director Rehan Aslam has died after a long battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor.
Forty-one-year Philly news veteran moves from WCAU to oversee journalism at the CBS duopoly there.
She’s stepping back to “move on and explore this next chapter of my life” after 20-plus years in newsrooms. Her last day will be July 1.
Bradley was named news director in October 2020. She had worked at WBZ for 25 years, working as the executive producer of CBSN and as a special projects producer for nine years before that.
Tegna promotes her from assistant news director to oversee journalism at its CBS affiliate in Washington.
She moves across town from WTSP to oversee journalism at the Tegna CBS affiliate starting June 20.
He will head journalism operations at the Tegna ABC affiliate in western Michigan.
He is moving from assistant ND at WTSP Tampa to succeed Kathy Hostetter as head of journalism at the CBS Pittsburgh duopoly.
WDVM and WDCW will occupy a new state-of-the-art newsroom and studio. The combined operation will offer 67-plus hours of local news and be known as “DC News Now” and will be led by veteran journalist and news management executive Ben Dobson.
She is promoted to succeed Mike Dello Stritto as head of journalism at KOVR and KMAX.
The assistant ND now leads journalism operations at the CBS duopoly in San Francisco.
She joins the Scripps NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla., from WUSA Washington where she was news content director.
The Sinclair Missouri CBS affiliate promotes the 11-year station vet to lead journalism operations.
Gray Television promotes him from assistant news director to oversee journalism at the group’s NBC affiliate in Jackson, Miss.
The veteran Kentucky journalist takes over the newsroom at the ABC affiliate.
She joins the Sinclair ABC-Fox affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, from WPTV-WFLX West Palm Beach.
The news veteran comes from KGO San Francisco to oversee journalism at Allen Media’s ABC affiliate in Paducah, Ky., where he worked earlier in his career.
Scripps moves her up from assistant ND to oversee journalism at its Bakersfield ABC affiliate.
He succeeds Scott Fitzgerald at Nexstar’s Houston CW affiliate.
Nexstar moves her up from assistant ND to oversee journalism at the NBC affiliate in the state capital.
Kate Glover has been named news director for Gray Television’s CBS affiliate in Kansas City. She joins from Gray’s WNDU South Bend, Ind., where she’s worked since 2017. In an internal communication, KCTV GM Andrew Stewart addressed the high turnover rate experienced while the station was owned by Meredith.
CBS News and Stations moves him from its Sacramento duopoly to succeed Andrea Parquet-Taylor in overseeing journalism at its Los Angeles duopoly.
The current assistant news director is selected to lead journalism at Hearst’s ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The veteran journalist returns from KTMW Salt Lake City to lead news at Telemundo’s Phoenix and Tucson stations.
Barry Fulmer is moving on from Block Communications’ Louisville, Ky., Fox affiliate WDRB after 17 years as news director to head journalism operations at Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WCPO Cincinnati.
Mark Neerman is no longer with San Francisco CBS O&O KPIX. The station did not release any other details. Neerman started working at KPIX in September 2018.
Gray Television promotes her from assistant news director to lead journalism operations at the CBS affiliate.
Kim Saxon becomes news director and Josh Morey is tapped as creative services director at Gray’s Atlanta duopoly.
Barry Fulmer joins from WDRB Louisville, Ky., to oversee news at the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati beginning Jan. 18.
The former news chief at WAVE Louisville, Ky., is tapped to oversee journalism at the Gray NBC affiliate in Tennessee.
