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.

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.

  
  

Capital B Atlanta

• Alyssa Johnson joins in a new position, Enterprise Reporter. Details and background.

Creative Loafing - Long-time writer and editor

Scripps News

• Matt Pearl departs

WANF

• Savannah Louie and Allen Devlin depart

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.

News from the PR Dept

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