Mitch's Media Musings - Nov. 2024

Mitch's Media Musings
Oct. 16 - Nov. 15, 2024
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Staff writer Anila Yoganathan has been delivering some excellent coverage of the BioLab situation. Here's a link to a recent piece.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brooke Leigh Howard joins as Atlanta Black Culture reporter. She's written for the Daily Beast, RNN TV, and Yahoo.
Check out this excellent piece by Thad Moore, part of a series of stories on Atlanta's water issues.
The AJC has a new entertainment newsletter, The Scene!
The AJC moves back in town (midtown) and the publisher talks about it with NPR. Click to listen.
Atlanta Press Club - Congrats to Julia Boyd and her team for another incredible night at the APC's Hall of Fame ceremony. Inducted this year were Valerie Boyd, Clark Howard, Tony Light, and Maria Saporta.
Burton Wire - We've added this online publication into the database. Publisher Nsenga Burton describes her site as an "online destination for news about the global African Diaspora."
Capital B - Sydney Sims departs for a position in academia
Georgia Sun - Brian Clark is now the publisher. We've added this online publication into the Leff's Atlanta Media database.
IHeartRadio - Mitch Evans departs
Rough Draft - Congrats on 30th anniversary of Atlanta InTown! Founder Chris Schroder writes here about launching it 30 years ago and Collin Kelley, who's edited the paper for 22 years, offers his perspective.
WABE Radio
Some staff cuts at the station but none to news staff. Details.
Bill Nigut has announced that he's retiring at the end of January
WANF TV
Allen Devlin joins the CBS News New York team. He says he's doing a little bit of everything, including anchoring, reporting, and solo storytelling.
Meteorologist Fred Campagna is leaving the station. He's going to work with Haag, a company that does forensic meteorology.
WSB TV
Brittany Kleinpeter joins as general assignment reporter. She was last at WXIA TV.
Looking to get married? Reporter Tom Jones can now officiate your ceremony!
WXIA
Jason Rogers joins as Senior Streaming Producer. He was most recently with The Weather Channel.
Deborah Raptis joins as Executive Producer for Atlanta & Company
Phil Hendrix joins as Managing Editor. He most recently worked at the Black News Channel and TheGrio.
Bobeth Yates departs
Meteorologist Jonathan Stacey moves to weekdays
News from the PR Dept
Gabrielle Braswell promoted to Senior Director Corporate Communications at Cox Automotive
Congrats to Alison Ilg with Ilg Communications who's been inducted into the Order of the Phoenix, recognizing the top PR talent in Georgia
Fran Tarkenton may be an NFL legend, but he's also an entrepreneurial icon and an Atlanta institution. He recently chronicled his career path, from the gridiron to the board room, in a deep-dive interview on Scott Merritt's Second Act Stories podcast. In this episode, Fran shares what made him one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and what continues to drive his lifelong success.
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