WGN in Chicago Hires Akemi Harrison as News Director

WGN has named Akemi Harrison as director of stories and multi-platform content material, efficient August 25.Harrison will lead all newsgathering and manufacturing throughout all native, nationwide, political and digital platforms related to WGN-TV, WGN+, wgntv.com, and the WGN-TV cell app.“As media consumption continues to evolve right into a multiplatform expertise, we’re thrilled to have Akemi Harrison be part of and lead our WGN content material workforce,” mentioned WGN vp and common supervisor Ric Harris. “Akemi is a extremely achieved information and media government who understands the significance of compelling storytelling and fascinating audiences throughout all platforms.”Harrison was the information director at NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago. She joined the workforce as assistant information director in August 2021 and was named information director in 2023. “I’m thrilled to affix such an unimaginable workforce of journalists who’ve led the market in each rankings and group engagement for many years. Rising up in Mississippi, I watched WGN and by no means imagined I’d sooner or later be in a management function there,” mentioned Harrison. “My management philosophy is straightforward: help our unimaginable expertise and dare to innovate. It’s an honor to construct on WGN’s highly effective legacy, and I’m excited to weave in a future-forward method to make sure we proceed to dominate the market.”  She has greater than 20 years of media and newsroom expertise, serving beforehand as assistant information director at NBC Connecticut, government producer for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, and in a wide range of information editorial and administration roles for tv stations within the San Francisco Bay Space and Sacramento, California.