Mitch's Media Musings - Oct 2024
Mitch's Media Musings
Sept. 16 - Oct. 15, 2024

General
Former Atlanta journalists Matt Hennie is moving to Texas. He'll be joining the Courier Newsroom as their Texas Chief Political Correspondent. He'll be covering TX politics from Austin and leading a team of reporters as they build out a digital newsroom, first in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Associated Press - We've added Charlotte Kramon to our database. She's covering political topics.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Leon Stafford and Ty Tagami depart
Check out this excellent piece as DeAsia Paige writes about Sean Combs and her experience as a woman covering the hip hop music industry. Link.
Thad Moore joins as investigative reporter. He comes from The Post & Courier in South Carolina.
Danielle Charbonneau joins as a reporter covering the arts and entertainment
Capital B Atlanta - Alyssa Johnson joins in a new position, Enterprise Reporter. Details and background.
Creative Loafing - Long-time writer and editor Cliff Bostock has died. Tony Paris writes in The Loaf about his passing and his legacy.
Rough Draft - Simon Owens media newsletter profiles Keith Pepper
Scripps News - Matt Pearl departs ... just before the network announces it's closing down its streaming network in November. More than 200 excellent journalists are now in the job market, many of them here in Atlanta
SOFU Lifestyle - We've added this South Fulton focused magazine to the database
Urbanize ATL - Josh Green's novel "Secrets of Ash" has been shortlisted as a runner up for fiction at the Hollywood Book Festival in Los Angeles
WABE - Douglas Bell joins as Senior Director of Radio
WANF - Savannah Louie and Allen Devlin depart
WSB TV - Christian Jennings departs for a new role as Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications and Marketing for the Georgia Hospital Association
WXIA/11Alive
Denisha Thomas is the new News Director at the station. She was most recently at WAYN in Memphis, a seven-time Regional Murrow Award recipient, and a University of Missouri School of Journalism graduate. Details.
Brittany Kleinpeter departs
Former reporter Chenue Her has joined KMSP TV/Fox9 in Eden Prairie, MN as weekday morning anchor. Details.
Former reporter Blayne Alexander, who's been with NBC News for a few years, returned from maternity leave today and announced she's now a correspondent with Dateline.
Neima Abdullahi departs.
Digital Executive Producer Donesha Aldridge has been elected to the Online News Association's Board of Directors
We've added Multiplatform Producer Gwynneth Shipley into the Leff's Atlanta Media database
News from the PR Dept
The latest episode of the Georgia Entertainment PR Alliance (GEPRA) podcast series, “SHOWBIZ & TELL” features a conversation with Seth Ingram, Creative Director of the Rome International Film Festival (Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 in Rome, Ga) Get your tickets at www.RIFFGA.com. Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFBP5U8Xlhw.
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