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Media Buzz has been busy reporting lots of departures recently. Of course, that means that there are loads of new faces on local newscasts. No official notices have been sent in regarding the new hires at each of the stations...

If you want to check out your favorite reporters, anchors, photographers and radio hosts in action, go check out the Media Charity Softball Tournament at at Cohen Stadium this Sunday. Fielding teams this year are KTSM-TV Channel 9, KINT-TV Channel...

Abe Lubetkin, the weekend morning anchor at KVIA-TV Channel 7, is leaving the station. His last day is next Sunday. Lubetkin is also a reporter and producer at Channel 7. He spent two years in El Paso. Lubetkin has accepted...

Andrew Chung, the meteorologist and reporter at KVIA-TV Channel 7 (cable Channel 6), is leaving the ABC affiliate later this summer. He has landed a job at the ABC affiliate in Austin, KVUE-TV. Chung came to El Paso in 2008...

Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo, the news director for KINT-TV Channel 26, announced on Tuesday that the Univision station has hired a new reporter. David Stout replaces long-time Channel 26 reporter Pedro Villagrana, who left the station earlier this spring. Stout comes to...

Several people with ties to El Paso media spent four days taking in the latest in multimedia training and engaging in hot topics during the National Association of Hispanic Journalists annual convention in Denver last week. About 800 journalists from...

Back in November, in a post titled, Lawsuit shakes up El Paso blog world, we wrote about ethics commission chairman Stuart Leeds suing online columnist David Karlsruher for David K's criticism of Leeds and how he might use the ethics...

Beau Bagley has a new title over at KTSM-TV Channel 9 (cable Channel 10). The weekend sports anchor at the NBC station is now the assistant sports director. He is now second in command in the sports department after Fred...

I had reported in a previous post that the rumors around town were that Philip Mena had been picked as the anchor for KDBC-TV Channel 4. That's the spot left vacant by Nichole Ayoub earlier this year. The rumors were...

The EMMY Lone Star Chapter announced the winners of their Excellence in My Market Award, or EMMAs, for the smaller TV markets in Texas. Here's a rundown of the winners from El Paso: Best General Assignment Report: "Pandillas en El...

Melanie Olivas left KTSM-TV last week just days before her graduation from the University of Texas at El Paso with an education degree in counseling on Saturday. She said she was starting a counseling gig at a local school today....

By Adriana Gómez Licón / El Paso Times It is common to say that graduating students begin a new chapter in their lives when they complete their studies. For a TV personality that appeared in the University of Texas at...

Rudy Reyes, a veteran photographer at KFOX-TV, was allegedly assaulted by an apparent family member of convicted former U.S. District Judge Manuel Barraza today in front of the federal courthouse. Two of Barraza's family members were walking into the courthouse...

El Paso Police spokesman Javier Sambrano, a former reporter for KINT-TV and KDBC-TV, has a new role within the department. As of this month, Sambrano is also a rookie police officer. Sambrano has been interested in law enforcement for a...

KFOX-TV reporter Brenda Medina will leave the station on Friday to take a job in another border town: Laredo, Texas. Medina will become an anchor and reporter for the Laredo First News at 9 on KTXW-TV, the CW affiliate there....

Nichole Ayoub, the prime-time anchor at KDBC-TV Channel 4 announced today that she is leaving the station. Her last day is April 23. Ayoub is yet another high-profile departure in a long string of exits at the KDBC/KTSM-TV Channel 9...

There are reports of two more departures at KTSM-TV Channel 9. Sources say meteorologist Russ Pappas didn't get his contract renewed and is now gone. Also, photojournalist Ric Dupont -- the same photog that filmed Darren Hunt being roughed up...