TV News From Frying Pan into the Fire

When you work at Nexstar's KOIN in Portland and move to and take a job at Cox/Apollo's KIRO Seattle, you leave one of the worst broadcast companies to join one that's owned by a hedge fund and laying folks off, recently maybe as many as a dozen cuts, including the entire sports department!!

That's the move reporter Brandon Thompson has made, apparently replacing Briseida Holguin.

Sadly, there are no longer any great companies to join when you compare broadcast owners. Cox cutting, Scripps stock price under $3, Tegna being led anew by someone who ran Artsy.com, major Graham buyouts, recent Allen Media layoffs. Yikes. But what's a broadcast journalist to do? Hmmm.

Good luck, Brandon. Rent, don't buy.



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