{"id":13852,"date":"2017-04-04T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2017-04-04T19:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:01:32","slug":"nbc-5-hires-assistant-news-director-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/04\/04\/nbc-5-hires-assistant-news-director-milwaukee\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 hires assistant news director from Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13853\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/04\/04\/nbc-5-hires-assistant-news-director-milwaukee\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13853\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13853\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis.jpg 504w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis-300x235.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis-500x392.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis-150x118.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis-400x313.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tracy-Davis-200x157.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Tracy Davis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tracy Davis, news director of the Weigel Broadcasting station in Milwaukee, has been hired as assistant news director at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\">WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> the NBC-owned station announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Davis will start here June 5, according to the announcement by Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the station\u2019s No. 2 news executive, Davis will fill the vacancy created by the departure last November of Debra Juarez, who held the title of news director. Juarez was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2016\/10\/19\/nbc-5-news-director-perfect-choice-miami-promotion\/\">promoted<\/a> to vice president, digital for NBC\/Universal\u2019s South Florida duopoly stations, WTVJ and Telemundo WSCV.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Elkhart, Indiana, and graduate of Franklin College, Davis started her career as a producer at WLFI, the CBS affiliate in West Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>She later worked as executive producer, news manager and news director for WFFF, the Fox affiliate in Colchester, Vermont, before joining Weigel\u2019s WDJT, the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, as assistant news director in 2013. She was promoted to news director in 2015, overseeing both WDJT and Telemundo WYTU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Davis, news director of the Weigel Broadcasting station in Milwaukee, has been hired as assistant news director at WMAQ-Channel 5, the NBC-owned station announced Tuesday. Davis will start here June 5, according to the announcement by Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5.<\/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\/13852"}],"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=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13857,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}