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Méndez to leave VP of News job at WNJU

Posted on 09 August 2017. Tags: , ,

Karen MendezTelemundo 47’s VP of News Karen Méndez is leaving the New York station. Her last day on the job is Friday, September 8.

Her departure was announced to staff yesterday – two years after she joined WNJU.

“Karen Mendez has made a personal decision to leave Telemundo 47 and relocate to Florida,” says a station spokesperson. “She will be missed and we wish her the very best.”

Upon her departure, Assistant News Director Endy Rodríguez will become the Acting News Director and Executive Producer Delines Alonso will move into the role of Acting Assistant News Director.

According to the spokesperson, “a search for our next Vice President of News is underway. “

Prior to landing the job at WNJU, Méndez was VP of Content at KXTX Telemundo 39 in Dallas. Before that, she was News Director for WFDC Univision in Washington, D.C.

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One Response to “Méndez to leave VP of News job at WNJU”

  1. NY Amor. says:
    August 9, 2017 at 5:51 PM

    Good.

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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