{"id":30686,"date":"2021-08-30T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:06:36","slug":"assistant-news-director-sarah-dunlap-burke-leaves-abc-7-new-york-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/08\/30\/assistant-news-director-sarah-dunlap-burke-leaves-abc-7-new-york-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant news director Sarah Dunlap Burke leaves ABC 7 in a New York minute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Sarah Dunlap Burke<\/p><\/div>\n

Still reeling from a massive decline<\/a> in ratings, the firing<\/a> of sports anchor Mark Giangreco, the cancellation<\/a> of \u201cWindy City Live\u201d and the layoffs of more than a dozen staffers, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a> just lost its No. 2 news executive.<\/p>\n

Sarah Dunlap Burke resigned Friday after seven years as assistant news director at ABC 7. She is expected to be named vice president and news director of WCBS, the CBS-owned station in New York, where she once worked as executive producer.<\/p>\n

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ABC 7 Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

In a terse email to employees, Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director of ABC 7, announced Burke\u2019s departure \u201cfor another opportunity,\u201d adding: \u201cPlease join me in thanking Sarah for all that she\u2019s done with our team during the past seven years and in wishing her the best in her next endeavor.\"<\/p>\n

Sources said Burke gave two weeks\u2019 notice but ABC 7 bosses rushed her out the same day. No word on her replacement.<\/p>\n

A native of west suburban Elmhurst, Burke graduated from York Community High School and Miami University of Ohio and began her career as an intern at Nexstar Media WGN-Channel 9.\u00a0She later worked at WCBS, CBS-owned KCNC in Denver, ABC affiliate KMGH in Denver, and Fox affiliate WXIN in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

Burke joined ABC 7 2014 from CBS-owned WBZ in Boston, where she moved up from assistant news director to acting news director. On her watch WBZ won a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, which coincided with Burke's first day on the job.<\/p>\n

Comment of the day:<\/a>\u00a0Susan Markgraf:<\/strong> This is a good media town and this is good media news. No matter where she goes, Jennifer Lyons\u00a0will always be Chicago's Very Own. Congratulations to CBS 2 bosses who made this brilliant move. Ripples of joy are being felt from the city to the suburbs!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still reeling from a massive decline in ratings, the firing of sports anchor Mark Giangreco, the cancellation of \u201cWindy City Live\u201d and the layoffs of more than a dozen staffers, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 just lost its No. 2 news executive. Sarah Dunlap Burke resigned Friday after seven years as assistant news director at ABC 7.... 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\/30686"}],"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=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30713,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/30713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}