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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an associate producer, general manager, weather anchor, director of sales, account executive, assistant chief engineer and general sales manager.

This year, Pittsburgh declared homelessness a public health emergency. “This Chronicle episode will focus on the issue of homelessness in Pittsburgh and what our city is doing to improve the situation,” says says Charles W. Wolfertz III, GM of Hearst’s ABC affiliate WTAE.

Rick Lewchuk, former CNN marketing VP, is working with several TV stations to help them with their news marketing. “We talk about focusing on where they need to have growth right now.”

Rather than simply reporting on the increase in youth crime, Scripps Fox affiliate WXMI Grand Rapids, Mich., is leading an initiative, A Path Forward, that seeks to connect families with crucial resources, address obstacles, celebrate successes and create lasting change.

Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach, Fla., started recording the testimonies as part of a company-wide project. Brent Struense, WPEC’s marketing and creative services director, says, “We cannot imagine what these people endured and survived.”

The Nexstar Media Charitable Foundation’s mission is to contribute to and work with public charities and nonprofit organizations to improve the communities in which Nexstar Media and its subsidiaries do business. The foundation was established in 1958 and it makes donations of approximately $350,000 annually.

WYFF held a fundraiser to benefit the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen on Wednesday, May 24. This event also celebrated the memory of WYFF News 4’s Mike McCormick and Aaron Smeltzer, two journalists who died five years ago while covering a storm.

Six days after a mass shooting that killed nine, WFAA Dallas aired a special for the community to share their feelings and thoughts about the issues of mental health and guns.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a morning news anchor/reporter, evening meteorologist, latenight news anchor/reporter, news reporter, transactional sales manager and multimedia journalist.

The ABC Owned Television Stations will present an hour-long documentary examining the state of mental health in America, looking inside the lives of those who suffer, the stigma associated with mental illness, organizations making a difference, and those standing up to give hope.

Tegna has been named a 2023 honoree of The Civic 50 by Points of Light and the Telecommunications Sector Leader. The Civic 50 honors the most community-minded companies in the United States. This year marks Tegna’s fourth consecutive year on the list, and the third year as Telecommunications Sector Leader.

WBRC Birmingham sat down with several residents who were blasted by fire hoses and attacked by dogs in the civil rights marches when they were students in 1963. Now senior citizens, they will never forget what happened.

TV stations are signing up for a new weather radar service that is filling the gaps that exist in the national weather radars. One station meteorologist says “if you asked any meteorologist in any of those markets, they would say this is so helpful.”

He will be responsible for overseeing the Tegna NBC affiliate’s marketing operations across platforms and Charlotte Today, a locally produced lifestyle show. Bailey replaces Rob Dwyer, the former marketing director, who is now the general manager at Tegna’s KCEN and KAGS in Waco, Texas.

Hawaii News Now, a three-station news operation, has unique coverage requirements due to the state’s history and natural beauty which draws tourists. But it shares the conundrums all local TV stations are facing.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer and an investigative reporter.

WAPT Jackson, Miss., created a video showing the behind-the-scenes of the inner workings of the station so that when their meteorologists, reporters or anchors visit classrooms or give presentations, they can share the inside story of what they do, and how they do it.

The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association announced the winners for the top local TV promos in the state for news image, weather, sports and topicals. Watch them here.

Graham Media’s Solutionaries is an experiment to grow a YouTube channel from zero based on solutions-based journalism. So far, so good. Overall views on Solutionaries’ YouTube channel are at 1.6 million.

Crime is a legitimate topic for news coverage because of concerns about the public’s safety. KING’S mission in Seattle is to “cover crime in a way that helps them be informed and empowered in ways that make sense,” says News Director Julie Wolfe.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, director of engineering, managing editor/director of Now, manager of business operations and multimedia journalist.