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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Good point Donna, is nothing sacred..
I would have turned and left as well..
we’re loosing our hot asian reporter!!! Too bad.
I wondered if she’d landed on her feet somewhere. I think KSDK must be an awful place to work now; everyone looking at each other, wondering who’s going to be the next to go. I agree about getting rid of Deanne Lane and the popular John Fuller, but I heard John is very happy where he is and you can’t beat happiness at work. Rebecca Wu at the FBI! Cool.
This is not news. Did you ask her what high school she went to as well?
Stop being such a pest and driving people from parties. If she has refused to discuss it with you before, stop asking over and over again.
She should be reporting on the disrespectful way the PD treats is few employees. Calling them at home to tell them not to bother to come in the next day - no kind farewell, no thanks, just don’t bother coming in.
Hopefully she’ll get the same treatment soon.
Oh how I miss Jerry….
While I agree that Deb probably shouldn’t have reported on her Lane encounter, it amazes me how mean some people can be on here…mindurbusiness. If you dislike The Post so bad, why are you on here? Do you really wish to see more people lose their jobs in this economy? As far as Lane, I do not watch KSDK anymore since she left. I would possibly consider turning it back on since I like Kay Quinn, but with Mike Bush around, there is just no way.
Appears that Yarchin got beat with the same ugly stick as Zigman. Yuk!
I’ve never been a fan of Deanne, but less so of DP. Deanne should get a restraining order on DP.
Thanks for that riveting update. With all of the cutbacks at the Post it’s amazing that you are still there. Just goes to show the state of “journalism” today. If newspapers are trying to figure out what happened to their readers I suggest a good mirror with good lighting.