{"id":2554,"date":"2014-02-27T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-02-27T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:26:40","slug":"reporter-brings-survivor-skills-to-nbc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/27\/reporter-brings-survivor-skills-to-nbc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative reporter brings \u2018Survivor\u2019 skills to NBC 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2555\" style=\"width: 647px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/27\/reporter-brings-survivor-skills-to-nbc-5\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2555\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2555\" alt=\"Tammy Leitner\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tammy-Leitner.png\" width=\"637\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Tammy Leitner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tammy Leitner, a Peabody Award-winning reporter who once appeared as a contestant on \u201cSurvivor,\u201d is joining the expanded investigative unit at NBC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a>\u00a0next week.<\/p>\n<p>Her hiring will supplement a growing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/investigations\/\" target=\"_blank\"> \"NBC 5 Investigates\" <\/a>team that currently includes reporters Rob Stafford, Carol Marin, Lisa Parker, Phil Rogers, Dick Johnson, Marion Brooks and Chris Coffey.\u00a0Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, confirmed that Leitner will start Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Leitner, 41, who most recently worked for CBS-owned WCBS-TV in New York, spent 11 years at KPHO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, where multiple honors for her investigative work included the Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards for a series on American soldiers who buried Agent Orange on a U.S. military base in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>A native of San Diego, she graduated from UCLA and earned a master\u2019s degree in journalism from Boston University. Before joining KPHO, she worked as a crime reporter for newspapers in New York and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Leitner appeared on \u201cSurvivor: Marquesas,\u201d the fourth season of the CBS reality series, which aired in 2002. According to her bio, she was \u201cthe 10th contestant voted off, lasting 30 [out of] 39 days and winning two individual immunity challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy Leitner, a Peabody Award-winning reporter who once appeared as a contestant on \u201cSurvivor,\u201d is joining the expanded investigative unit at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5\u00a0next week. Her hiring will supplement a growing \"NBC 5 Investigates\" team that currently includes reporters Rob Stafford, Carol Marin, Lisa Parker, Phil Rogers, Dick Johnson, Marion Brooks and Chris Coffey.\u00a0Frank Whittaker,... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/27\/reporter-brings-survivor-skills-to-nbc-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/2554"}],"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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}