WATL Atlanta Launching Primetime Newscast

The Tegna-owned MNT affiliate WATL Atlanta (DMA 10) will debut news in primetime today from co-owned NBC affiliate WXIA. 11Alive News: Primetime will air from 8 to 10 p.m.
WXIA’s Crash Clark Apologizes For Cursing On Air
Aisha Howard Joining WXIA’s 11 PM News
Journalists Bring Digital Aesthetic To Local News

Creating more long-form, “nuanced” journalism is a way for local stations to grab younger viewers in an era where there is a growing dissatisfaction with the national news media. (Photo: Wendy Moger-Bross)
WXIA Anchor Jennifer Boettcher Leaving News
Vinnie Politan Leaving WXIA After 4-Plus Years
Tegna Investigates Disappearance Of Little Boy
UPDATE: KSDK Exposes Selling Girls For Sex
Jeremy Campbell, a reporter/executive storyteller on WXIA Atlanta’s digital, investigative unit presents four suggestions on how make the transition from traditional to digital journalist and create “deep dive, digital release” stories.
Valerie Hoff Sues WXIA Over Forced Resignation
WXIA Reporter Valerie Hoff Resigns Over Tweet
Former WXIA Reporter Ollisteen Miles Dies At 70
The station groups were cited for their “strong, clear, vocal leadership.” Other winners of the political journalism award, which is bestowed by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism,include include KUSA Denver (two awards); KXAN Austin, Texas; WXIA Atlanta; WOI Des Moines, Iowa; KMGH Denver; and KCET Los Angeles.
WXIA’s Blayne Alexander Joins NBC News Channel
Tegna Looking To Grow Its Own Syndie Hits
Tegna Media President Dave Lougee challenged his stations to come up with new ideas for first-run shows that it could take group-wide — and possibly nationally. That yielded five pilots and, of those, two from WXIA Atlanta and WWL New Orleans were deemed worthy to produce locally.
Four 2017 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards go to local television news investigations: KXAN in Austin, Texas, for documenting racial profiling, WVIT in West Hartford, Conn., for uncovering widespread faulty home construction, Indianapolis’ WTHRfor exposing a corrupt charity, and Atlanta’s WXIA for spotlighting problems with the 911 emergency system.
KUSA Anchor Cheryl Preheim Moving To WXIA
KOVR Anchor Ron Jones Moving To WXIA
Anchor Brenda Wood To Retire From WXIA
Former WXIA Reporter Rowson Joins The FBI
Sports Anchor David Wilkinson Leaves WXIA
WXIA Wins Al Neuharth Investigative Award
RTDNA today announced the winners of the 2016 National Edward R. Murrow Awards, which honors outstanding work produced by radio, television and online news organizations. In large-market television, WXIA-WATL Atlanta scored a triple win for Continuing Coverage, Investigative Reporting and Writing. In small-market television, WVUE New Orleans had a double win for Series and Use of Video and WISC Madison, Wis., got a triple win for Overall Excellence, Newscast and Feature Reporting.
WXIA Reporter Comes Out After Orlando Shooting
Fred McFarlin Gone From WXIA’s Morning Show
WXIA Reunion Fetes 15 Departing Staffers
WTAE Pittsburgh, WXIA Atlanta and WMAQ Chicago are the station winners included in the first batch of 10 winners from its inaugural Peabody 30 winners for 2016.
Whitney, Rowson, Lowry Taking WXIA Buyouts
WXIA Airs ‘SO NOT FIRED’ Promo
Chris Holcomb Still At WXIA Despite Speculation
WXIA Leads Tegna’s Reinvention Of News
Tegna’s effort to overhaul local news is manifest in Inside the Triangle, a six-week investigation into heroin usage by the group’s Atlanta NBC affiliate. So far it’s been available only online, generating close to four million page views. “Everybody has talked for years about trying to change the formulaic product that we produce,” says Tegna’s Ellen Crooke, “and Tegna is devoted in 2016 that we’re going to do something about it.”