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Elena LaQuatra, who lost 100% of her hearing to bacterial meningitis when she was four, has been promoted to morning traffic reporter and noon anchor at WTAE, Hearst’s ABC in Pittsburgh.

KCCI Des Moines, Iowa, harnessed the full complement of its market-leading broadcast and digital properties to raise awareness for Food Bank of Iowa’s Hunger Free Holidays month-long campaign.

Lawmakers, leaders, KMBC reporters and newsmakers alike will join roundtable discussions focused on the local impact of weekly headlines and ongoing issues.

Michelle Parker began her career in the film department at KCCI Des Moines in 1977. She joined the news department as a reporter in 1979, becoming one of Iowa’s first female African-American reporters.

Chronicle: Remembering 9/11 returns to the hallowed ground in Somerset County, Pa., where “40 brave souls sacrificed everything in our nation’s first blow against foreign terrorism on U.S. soil,” says Jim Parsons, WTAE Pittsburgh’s news director.

“Our neighbors along the gulf are only now beginning to get the full scope of all that needs to be rebuilt and repaired after Hurricane Ida,” says Susana Schuler, WVTM’s GM.

KOAT in Albuquerque, N.M., is airing a two-hour exclusive special surrounding the origins of an iconic Santa Fe tradition coupled with a live broadcast of 97^th annual event. KOAT has recently won two awards from the New Mexico Broadcasters Association for its 2020 broadcast of Zozobra.

WTAE’s Chronicle: The Road to Canton traveled coast to coast to talk to the members of “The Black and Gold” soon to don the institution’s gold jackets.

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In 1981, two skywalks collapsed in the lobby of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel, killing 114. At a time of increased scrutiny of the integrity of structures, Hearst’s KMBC there will air an hour-long documentary on the worst structural disaster of its time.