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Salcedo comes to WXIA 11Alive from Tegna’s sister station WTSP-TV in Tampa where she is the weekend morning anchor and lead evening reporter.

John Deushane, WXIA’s general manager in Atlanta, retires today from the broadcast business after 47 years, 13 of which he’s been at the helm of Tegna station in Atlanta. “It’s been a true blessing to work with the talented journalists and professionals at 11Alive. The past 13 years have been more of a gift than a job,” said Deushane.

The 2023 Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Awards have been announced and among the winners are five local TV stations. The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, established in 1942, honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service and is considered one of the most prestigious awards in journalism.

Ben Bates has been promoted to marketing director at WWL, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in New Orleans. Prior to WWL, Bates worked in creative services and marketing at stations in Denver, Albuquerque, N.M., and Tegna’s WXIA in Atlanta.

When a Georgia county school hired a diversity, equity and inclusion administrator, parents criticized the move. Two agreed to interview experts and allow WXIA to report on what they learned and whether it changed their conclusions.

KMGH in Denver and WXIA in Atlanta both earned national recognition for their respective regional news reports by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2021 at the 42^nd News & Documentary Emmys held Sept. 28 in New York.

TV stations across the country continue to lead efforts to help those in need in their communities in a variety of ways.

TVNewsCheck announces the launch of Marketing Monday, a free weekly newsletter that features the best of Market Share and other marketing articles, delivered to your email inbox every Monday.

WXIA Atlanta took an innovative approach to address concerns and mistrust over the COVID-19 vaccines. Instead of a reporter interviewing the experts, they turned the questioning over to an Atlanta viewer skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccines, a mom with two kids who was also a caregiver for her live-in elderly mother.

TV stations owned by Weigel, Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray, Tegna, Hearst, and Sunbeam in markets all over the country are responding to help those in need in their communities with food, toys, clothing, rent assistance and even restaurants hit by the pandemic.