Changes ahead at KSDK-TV, Channel 5; also update on Deanne Lane
Rebecca Wu
NEWS FROM CHANNEL 5: Rebecca Wu, a news anchor at KSDK-TV (Channel 5), is rumored to be leaving the station to take a job with the FBI. Wu joined KSDK in 2003 after working as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KPTV-TV in Portland, Ore., beginning in 1999. She went there from Jacksonville, Fla.
Wu did not return messages and repeated phone calls Wednesday. Mike Shipley, news director at the station, said Wednesday: “There are some developments with Rebecca but I can’t go into the details. Call me back in a week.”
On the plus side of the ledger, the station has hired Ashley Yarchin to be a reporter. Yarchin, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is rumored to be the niece of Leisa
Zigman, also a reporter at KSDK.
Yarchin did a stint at KSDK some years ago, where she has said she “did everything from rolling teleprompter to off-air reporting.” She graduated from Washington University with a degree in Comparative Arts in 2002.
Ashley Yarchin
While earning a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, Yarchin worked in Washington as a capital correspondent for KMID-TV in Midland, Texas. After graduation from Northwestern, she was hired as a crime reporter for the West Texas station.
She left there in 2005 to be a general assignment reporter at WLTX-TV in South Carolina. That station and KSDK are owned by Gannett.
Here’s an update for those who call and write to ask about Deanne Lane. I was at a graduation party for a friend’s daughter on Saturday. It was a purely social event. Lane, who is friends with the couple that was holding the party, walked in, saw me and left. She has not returned phone calls since she was fired from KSDK in April. I have no idea what she is doing at this time.
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That’s a shame about Deanne Lane. I really miss her on the news!
Do white males ever get hired anymore at the news stations? Or is it just ethnic minorities and females?
it is too bad about deanne. i wish she would just tell me that she has a confidentiality clause that prevents her from speaking about her plans, if that’s what it is. i would not have accosted her at the party, either. i would have asked her what she was doing but wouldn’t have persisted if she hadn’t want to talk about it.
I rarely even watch KSDK anymore since Deanne left. Deb, I’m glad you didn’t take Deanne’s reaction personally! Just reading it hurt my feelings! Is Yarchin Ashley’s maiden name? I went to Wash U, graduated in 2001 but I don’t remember her…
nepotism at its finest
Wondering why you felt it was appropriate to mention in a public forum what went on at a friend’s party. You say you would not have accosted her at the party and yet you mention the incident in your column. I’d turn around and leave too if you have a habit of mentioning things that happen in your private life in your public column. If you want to just say, “to those of you who ask about deanne lane, I have no idea what she is doing,” that seems enough.
Love Rebecca Wu and Deanne Lane, Channel 5 goofed when they let her and john fuller go - GET RID OF MIKE BUSH he totally stinks ( being nice)
he’s also very arrogant !!
Well Deb, once you get fired from your job, we’ll see how you feel about discussing it.
It will come- you work for a dying newspaper.
Some friend Deanne is, see a reporter at a friends party and leave??
Couldn’t she just have said, No comment.
Just a guess, but white guys probably run the station and the company.
Deb’s a reporter, so she reports what occurs in the entertainment business here in St. Louis.