{"id":19952,"date":"2018-11-21T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19952"},"modified":"2018-11-21T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:00:04","slug":"robservations-cbs-2-shakes-late-news-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/21\/robservations-cbs-2-shakes-late-news-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: CBS 2 shakes up late-news leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> CBS 2 Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

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David Parrish<\/p><\/div>\n

When you\u2019re last in the ratings and still declining, someone has to take the fall for it. That looks like the case at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, <\/a>where David Parrish<\/strong> is out as executive producer of the 10 p.m. newscast. The move signals more changes under Jeff Harris,<\/strong> who\u2019s been vice president and news director of CBS 2 since July. \u201cIt was an honor to serve as a manager at CBS 2,\u201d Parrish told me. \u201cThis is the greatest TV news market in the country. I look forward to many more exciting years in the Chicago broadcast community.\u201d Parrish\u2019s 15-year run at CBS 2 was preceded by seven years as 9 p.m. newscast producer at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9. CBS 2 has posted a job opening<\/a> for a new executive producer.<\/p>\n

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Tribune Publishing<\/p><\/div>\n

As expected, Tribune Publishing<\/a> has extended its latest\u00a0buyout offer<\/a> to editorial employees, including Chicago Tribune staffers represented by the Chicago Tribune Guild. \u201cOur overall goal at Tribune Publishing is to accelerate our company\u2019s transformation into a truly digitally-focused enterprise \u2013 one that can sustain the meaningful journalism we have delivered for centuries,\u201d Maya A. Bordeaux,<\/strong> senior vice president of human resources at Tribune Publishing, wrote in an email. \u201cAlthough we are making progress against these goals, we continue to operate in a challenging business environment. Based on the ongoing trends in our industry, we need to make some difficult decisions to align our costs with revenue trends.\u201d Employees have until December 3 to apply for the voluntary separation plan. \u201cFurther workforce reductions\u201d are expected to follow, according to the company.<\/p>\n

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Aimee Johnson Kilman<\/p><\/div>\n

Our hearts go out to Buzz Kilman,<\/strong> longtime Chicago radio newsman\/sidekick and blues musician, on the loss of his wife, Aimee,<\/strong> who died Tuesday after an 11-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. A native of Roselle and massage therapist, she was 53. \u201cAimee Jo Johnson-Kilman . . . she was the best!\u2019 Buzz Kilman wrote on Facebook.<\/a> \u201cMy dream girl! R.I.P. with all my love forever!\u201d Condolences also to their 17-year-old daughter Piper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pat Dean<\/p><\/div>\n

Pat Dean,<\/strong> a two-time Peabody Award-winning news producer and programming executive at three network-owned stations in Chicago, later became a professor at two leading journalism schools. Dean died of cancer Sunday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 72. She retired in 2011 as associate director of the School of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She previously served as associate professor and broadcast news chair at Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism. Dean began her career as a reporter for the Daily Herald.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Stan Williams:<\/strong> Special kudos to WGN-TV for staying with yesterday's tragedy through the primetime hours to provide complete coverage of the slain officer's solemn procession through Chicago on the way to the medical examiner's office. It was a very moving and emotional procession, and the WGN anchors handled it extremely well. While all of Chicago's other stations cut away to their regular schedule, WGN showed a lot of class by staying with the story until its conclusion. Nice job, WGN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: When you\u2019re last in the ratings and still declining, someone has to take the fall for it. That looks like the case at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, where David Parrish is out as executive producer of the 10 p.m. newscast. The move signals more changes under Jeff Harris, who\u2019s been vice... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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\/19952"}],"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=19952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19964,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952\/revisions\/19964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}