{"id":21157,"date":"2019-03-28T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2019-03-28T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:00:20","slug":"eddie-arruza-leaving-wttw-continue-growing-professionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/03\/28\/eddie-arruza-leaving-wttw-continue-growing-professionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Arruza leaving WTTW to \u2018continue growing professionally\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Eddie Arruza (Photo: WTTW)<\/p><\/div>\n

Eddie Arruza, the veteran newsman who\u2019s been a capable and well-informed correspondent on\u00a0\u201cChicago Tonight\u201d <\/a>for 15 years, announced he\u2019s leaving WTTW-Channel 11<\/a> to pursue new ventures.<\/p>\n

Friday will mark his last day at the Window to the World Communications public television station with his final appearance as host of \u201cThe Week in Review.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel the need to move on in order to challenge myself and continue growing professionally,\u201d Arruza said. \u201cMy future plans are still in development. I wish only the very best for my colleagues at WTTW and [classical radio station] WFMT. And I'm grateful to have been in their company carrying out a mission rather than just a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the eve of Chicago\u2019s mayoral election, Arruza leaves big shoes to fill on \u201cChicago Tonight,\u201d his station's flagship nightly news show. \u201cAs a popular, skilled and versatile contributor to the program since June 2004, Eddie will be greatly missed,\u201d a spokeswoman said in a statement. \u201cAll of us at WTTW wish him the very best as he moves on to new adventures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cuban-born Arruza, 58, who came to the U.S. with his family in 1966 and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, began his career in Spanish-language television. He later worked as a reporter for ABC-owned WABC in New York and as a reporter, fill-in news anchor and program host at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 here.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Chicago Tonight\u2019 premiered just months before I moved to Chicago in the summer of 1984, and it entered my radar not long thereafter,\u201d he recalled. \u201cJohn Callaway [the founding host] was a mesmerizing force unlike any television journalist I had ever seen, local or national. I never imagined that one day I would work on the program that John so inimitably enshrined as a necessary vehicle for thoughtful and in-depth analysis and\u00a0meaningful conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo decades later, it was a privilege to join that legacy program, walking on the path\u00a0John forged but knowing it's impossible to ever fill his shoes. However, I will cherish the various times John personally called to compliment me on an interview I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last 15 years I could not have asked for more inspiring colleagues than Phil Ponce, Carol Marin, Joel Weisman, Bob Sirott and executive producer Mary Field, as well as a dedicated and talented staff of producers and engineers. And now the future of \u00a0\u2018Chicago Tonight\u2019\u00a0is in the very capable hands of\u00a0a new generation of fine correspondents and producers who, I'm confident, will guide it well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Richard Klicki:<\/strong>\u00a0I'm waiting for Jussie Smollett to announce he'll devote his life searching for the real attackers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Arruza, the veteran newsman who\u2019s been a capable and well-informed correspondent on\u00a0\u201cChicago Tonight\u201d for 15 years, announced he\u2019s leaving WTTW-Channel 11 to pursue new ventures. Friday will mark his last day at the Window to the World Communications public television station with his final appearance as host of \u201cThe Week in Review.\u201d<\/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\/21157"}],"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=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21168,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions\/21168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}