{"id":8336,"date":"2015-07-30T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2015-07-30T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:41:29","slug":"abc-7-adds-aggressive-reporter-laura-thoren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/30\/abc-7-adds-aggressive-reporter-laura-thoren\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 adds reporter Laura Thoren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8337\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/30\/abc-7-adds-aggressive-reporter-laura-thoren\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8337\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8337\" alt=\"Laura Thoren\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-1024x734.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-1024x734.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-300x215.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-150x107.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-1200x861.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-400x287.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-800x574.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Laura-Thoren-200x143.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Laura Thoren<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Laura Thoren, granddaughter of a legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/nyheter\/article10344819.ab\" target=\"_blank\">journalist and diplomat<\/a> from Sweden, has been hired as a per diem reporter at ABC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WLS-Channel 7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thoren, a general assignment reporter and fill-in news anchor at KOAT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico, joins ABC 7 August 31.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaura is an aggressive reporter who is always looking to uncover the next big story,\u201d Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director at ABC 7, said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A Connecticut native and 2010 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Thoren was a reporter for News 12 Networks in New York before joining KOAT in January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Thoren\u2019s name reflects her past, according to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koat.com\/tv\/news-team\/General-Assignment-Reporter\/18568806\" target=\"_blank\">bio. <\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s pronounced \u2018Terrain\u2019 and it\u2019s Swedish,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy grandfather, the late Arne Thoren, was a TV and radio broadcaster in Sweden.\u201d\u00a0He also served as ambassador to Iraq and consul general in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Thoren, granddaughter of a legendary journalist and diplomat from Sweden, has been hired as a per diem reporter at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Thoren, a general assignment reporter and fill-in news anchor at KOAT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico, joins ABC 7 August 31.<\/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\/8336"}],"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=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8340,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}