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Seattle TV has a new news boss



Jennifer Dahl gets the nod after some years as an agent and consultant.  Good luck.    This from rickgevers.com.

JENNIFER DAHL will start June 15th as the next ND for Cox Media's KIRO-TV (CBS) in Seattle. GM PAT NEVIN sent this note to the staff. Jen is a former ND in Phoenix (KTVK-TV) and Salt Lake City (KSL-TV), and held corporate jobs with Tribune, Local TV, and Sinclair. For the last few years, she's been working as an agent and consultant. Her Linkedin page has more. Jen replaces LAURA EVANS who left in April after almost three years as ND.

Late Breaking: Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes fired for cause.

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  1. IDC9June 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM

    Welcome to Seattle, Jennifer! I hope her arrival will usher in a new era of success for KIRO!

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  2. IDC9June 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM

    I'm sorry to hear of Pelley's firing from 60 Minutes. CBS has done great damage to such an esteemed news program. It will never be the same.

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  3. AnonymousJune 3, 2026 at 4:53 AM

    Fascinating hire. Was KIRO deliberately looking for someone with a track record and business experience outside of local news management -- or is the traditional producer to exec producer to ND pipeline drying up?

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    1. Wayne LJune 3, 2026 at 8:56 AM

      Sounds like she just wanted to get back inside a newsroom again. Maybe she has a Cox connection in one of their other markets or with the GM.

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  4. AnonymousJune 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM

    There were some stations back then in the 1960s and 1970s who made unconventional hires bringing in so-called "news consultants" to become news directors or even washed-up movie actors looking for a second break. I don't know any station here in Seattle can size up the audacity in their next producer hire and say he/she/they have "news director" potential. Even the term "news director" these days seems to be fizzling in favor of "content manager".

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    1. Wayne LJune 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM

      Cox had long been a company wedded to research, so the fact that Dahl has been a consultant who understands news research could have been a big factor in her being hired. Same just happened to a former KING who left a big consulting job to return to a newsroom in a small market to boot.

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    2. Wayne LJune 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM

      And yes, Content Manager is the multi-platform, modern title for ND.

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