Media update: Fowser returns to WDEL – Delaware Business Now

(Fowser photograph above)

Some excellent news at information and discuss station WDEL

Veteran Delaware broadcast journalist Mark Fowser rejoined the station’s information aspect  Mark is a former Information Director at WXDE/Delaware 105.9 in Lewes and WILM in Wilmington. He additionally does site visitors studies out of Philadelphia on weekends.

The Claymont native is a previous president of the Delaware Press Affiliation and Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Affiliation.

Additionally becoming a member of WDEL is Rachel Suga is a current journalism graduate of Penn State’s Bellisario School of Communications, the place she reported for The Each day Collegian and PSN TV, together with worldwide reporting from Penn State-Scotland and internet hosting protection of PSU’s THON fundraiser.

Fowser and Suga be part of WDEL after the departures this 12 months of Assistant Information Director Amy Cherry, who took a place on the College of Delaware and Digital Editor DJ McAneny who’s now Delaware Press Secretary for U.S. Sen. Chris Coons.

The Perpetually Media station has made information employees cuts, and the worry was that WDEL was shifting towards a skeleton employees we frequently see in lots of mid-sized markets. Even with a smaller newsroom, WDEL has piled up business reporting awards over time.

“Our dedication to our listeners and Delaware information has by no means wavered,” mentioned Chris Carl, WDEL’s director of stories & programming, “and including Mark and Rachel to the employees will solely bolster our efforts to cowl the information and points that have an effect on Delaware.”

WDEL continues to offer 9 hours of stories protection every weekday, together with “Delaware’s Morning Information with Peter MacArthur” – Delaware’s highest-rated information program – and WDEL’s one-hour weekday newsmagazine present “Del-AWARE.”

Earlier this 12 months, WDEL celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its first broadcast. 

The current spring ranking guide confirmed a robust efficiency by WDEL and sister FM hit music station WSTW. WDEL’s efficiency has been aided by the addition of an FM sign. An identical change was made at Philadelphia information station KYW.

No massive cuts at Gannett properties

I additionally didn’t hear any phrase of editorial job cuts at Gannett papers and web sites in Delaware.

The corporate did some belt-tightening after a disappointing quarter.

Gannett, the product of a merger with Gannett and Gatehouse, is coping with a heavy debt load that makes it powerful so as to add assets.

Gannett had carried out plenty of slicing previously few years and, after the merger staffs from the Gatehouse weeklies have been folded into the dailies in Salisbury (Each day Occasions/Delmarva Now) and northern Delaware (Information Journal/Delaware On-line).

In response to the adjustments, the employees of the Information Journal voted to unionize.