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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Ms. Wu heads off to replace the sterotypical Asian female Family Guy reporter. Ashley - give me a shout out and let’s make some news.
Has this thread been attacked by the CLONES?
Deb Peterson,
I am not at all surprised that Deanne walked out when she saw you. I think your “reporting” is awful. You should be ashamed of the work you do, the way you do it and the things you print. You are not even remotely a journalist. You’re a gossip hussy that shouldn’t even be allowed to write a grocery list.
I love Kevin Spacey……….and Hammerpants!
Hey Not a Fan, I’M Notafan!! Come up with a new name…
Hope Wu can write better than Jack Wang does for MoDot. Then again, probably not. No one in television knows how to write. I get a life threatening brain cramp when I hear them say “non-life threatening injuries.” No one talks like that. Its either slight, serious. critical injury. BTW Deb, you flunk Journalism 101. You’re supposed to report new information. “I have no idea what she is doing at this time” is NOT reporting.
And now we know that party wasn’t purely social. Because you made it a work session.
Jerry Berger (get well soon Jerry!) would NEVER, EVER have done this.
NOBODY INVITED ME TO ANY PARTY!
Pretty presumptive of you to think that Deanne left because she seen you.
Get funky with the Cheese Whiz.
KSDK has become a joke. They get rid of everyone with good personalities and local ties (Lane, Fuller) and keep the zombie robots (Bush,Zigman). The blondie weathergirl is spacy. Go figure. I’ve switch to Ch2 at 9pm. Dave Murray rocks when it comes to predicting weather–and he does not hyperventilate like the other stations.