{"id":11594,"date":"2016-06-09T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11594"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:17:10","slug":"reporter-charlie-de-mar-comes-home-to-cbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/09\/reporter-charlie-de-mar-comes-home-to-cbs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Charlie De Mar comes home to CBS 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Charlie<\/a>

<\/a> Charlie De Mar<\/p><\/div>\n

Charlie De Mar, a Chicago native who\u2019s been a reporter for two stations in Indianapolis, is coming home to work for CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/a><\/p>\n

De Mar starts June 15 as a full-time general assignment reporter for CBS 2, the station announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie is a talented journalist who knows Chicago and understands what \u2018Original Reporting\u2019 means,\u201d Jeff Kiernan, vice president and news director of CBS 2, said in a statement. \u201cHis style of news-gathering and reporting aligns with our mission to provide viewers with a fresh perspective on what\u2019s happening in and around Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Mar, who grew up in the Lincoln Park neighborhood and attended Francis W. Parker School,<\/a> graduated cum laude<\/em> from the University of Arizona in 2012. Since 2014 he has been a reporter for CBS affiliate WTTV and Fox affiliate WXIN in Indianapolis. Both stations are owned by Tribune Media and located in the same building.<\/p>\n

For two years before that De Mar worked as a reporter and fill-in news anchor at WFFT, the Fox affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Among his student internships was a stint in the sales department of Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is my hometown and I\u2019m excited to return as a journalist and work for the station that inspired me to become a reporter,\u201d he said in a statement.\u00a0 \u201cCBS 2 is the epitome of a great news organization and I\u2019m thrilled to have been asked to join this talented team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie De Mar, a Chicago native who\u2019s been a reporter for two stations in Indianapolis, is coming home to work for CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2. De Mar starts June 15 as a full-time general assignment reporter for CBS 2, the station announced Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11598,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}