announced her retirement<\/a> last week. \"We are working on next steps to fill the lead role for WTTW News,\" Micek said.<\/p>\nHere is the text of Micek\u2019s email to employees:<\/strong><\/p>\nColleagues,<\/em><\/p>\nEach and every day, we continue to reimagine and evolve what we do and how we do it to achieve our ambitious goal to be a best-in-class content company essential to Chicago and beyond. We will put content first: trusted, local news and public affairs; content genres that entertain, cultivate curiosity and open doors and minds; and kids content that nurtures and educates. We will focus relentlessly on our audience and leverage technology to meet them where and when they want us. We will always seek to be valuable to and valued by our community.<\/em><\/p>\nYour input in the strategic plan has been essential as we lay the groundwork for the future. So, thank you to all who have participated along the way. As we develop the strategic plan, it has become clear that we need organizational and operational alignment in order to achieve our objectives.<\/em><\/p>\nI am pleased to announce that\u00a0Geoffrey Baer, our long-time WTTW writer\/producer and talent, has been promoted to\u00a0Vice President of Original Content Production\u00a0for television, leading local and national productions in our key genres (e.g., local history, docs, lifestyle, etc.) outside of News. Geoffrey will report to me.<\/em><\/p>\nOn the WTTW programming side,\u00a0Lisa Tipton\u00a0has been promoted to\u00a0Head of Programming and Pledge. In her new role, Lisa will oversee TV programming and pledge, program acquisitions\/presenting station deals and traffic for WTTW. Lisa will report to me.<\/em><\/p>\nWith\u00a0Mary Field\u2019s upcoming retirement, we are working on next steps to fill the lead role for WTTW News. Going forward, our\u00a0news and community engagement teams\u00a0will also report to me.<\/em><\/p>\nWith the recent arrival of WFMT General Manager, George Preston, the\u00a0WFMT Radio Network team and WFMT Archivist, Alison Schein Holmes\u00a0will now report directly to George.<\/em><\/p>\nI am also pleased to announce that we have filled our\u00a0Vice President and Chief Financial Officer\u00a0role.\u00a0Jitin Garg, who\u00a0joined us to lead finance on an interim basis, has accepted our offer to join the organization full-time. Jitin joins us with a strong corporate finance and accounting background having worked at firms like Deloitte and Citadel among others. Jitin is a U of I grad and a native Chicagoan who has a passion for and understanding of what we do. He will be an outstanding asset to WTTW and WFMT.<\/em><\/p>\nIn order to enable a more consolidated view of revenue across development and\u00a0sales\u00a0and to maximize our revenue potential,\u00a0WTTW and WFMT Sales\u00a0will now report to\u00a0Jill Britton, SVP\/Chief Development Officer.<\/em><\/p>\nAnne Gleason, SVP\/Marketing and Digital Media\u00a0has taken on additional responsibility for\u00a0creative services, graphics\u00a0and\u00a0audience insights\/research. This will allow us to leverage audience insights across the organization and will ensure that our brands are consistently represented across our platforms, materials and wherever audiences interact with WTTW and WFMT.<\/em><\/p>\nAnd, finally,\u00a0Security and Facilities\u00a0will be moving over to Engineering. Security will report to\u00a0Director of Production Operations, Derrick Young, and\u00a0Facilities will report to Director of Broadcast and Technology, Mike Tompary.<\/em><\/p>\nPlease join me in supporting these colleagues in their evolved roles and responsibilities. We are in the final stages of the strategic plan and look forward to begin rolling it out this summer.\u00a0 And, once again a sincere thank you to all of you. Every day, you deliver on our purpose \u201cto enrich lives, engage communities, and inspire exploration.\u201d I am excited about our team and our future, and look forward to continuing to work together as we serve the community.<\/em><\/p>\nThanks,<\/em>
\n Sandra<\/em><\/p>\nThursday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Chuck Schaden:<\/strong> Congratulations to David Plier. I've known him to be a dedicated member of the Museum Board and a leader through various MBC transitions. His enthusiasm, expertise and know-how make him exactly the right person at the right time to help develop and carry forward the goals of this unique organization.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Baer, who's been Chicago's genial tour guide and unofficial historian at WTTW-Channel 11 for more than 25 years, is taking on a major new role at the public television station. Baer has been named vice president of original content production\u00a0for television, effective Monday. In his new position, he'll oversee creation of programming in such... 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\/22215"}],"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=22215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}