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Seattle TV news boss gets a corporate role



KING news director Julie Wolfe gets promoted, per TVNewsCheck

"Tegna Inc. today announced the appointment of Carol Fowler, Julie Wolfe and Chris Peña as vice presidents of content, effective June 30. These appointments follow the company’s recent announcement that its stations will be adding more than 100 hours of new daily streaming programming across 51 markets.

In these new roles, “each of the three leaders will oversee local stations in a dedicated geographic region, focusing on the quality, depth and relevance of coverage, and emphasizing the local impact and the daily practical value of the information,” Tegna said. Each will also oversee a content priority, such as weather coverage, big stories and events, morning news strategy, sales and sponsorships, storytelling and investigative and solutions-based journalism."

I assume she will be working with KGW in PDX, KREM in Spokane and KTVB Boise.

Update: Her stations will be in San Diego, Sacramento and Denver as well.  Lots of travel.   

Julie joined KING just about four years ago to the day from Louisville, where she was ND for WHAS.

Comments

  1. IDC9June 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM

    Congrats to Julie on her promotion. A good move by Tegna to bring in the news director of one of the company's strongest stations (strongest perhaps being relative) to help guide content for all of the stations.

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  2. AnonymousJune 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM

    Nice spin on consolidating many local NDs into 3 corporate VP roles and then leaving each station with local managers topping out at EP level.

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  3. Wayne LJune 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM

    Yes, exactly. The dereg of ownership is getting closer and Tegna is thinning the herd to make the company more valuable fr sale. They have hubbed marketing and promotion, and now creating a layer or regionals. Moves to lower station budgets for prospective buyers. Regional hires are very disposable.

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