In return to Louisiana, Jonathan Shelley tapped to lead News at WBRZ, WBRZ Plus in Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE – WBRZ has named Jonathan Shelley its Director of Information.

Shelley was appointed to supervise the station’s information operations from the same job within the Midwest. Shelley is returning to Louisiana, the place his sons had been born and the place he and his spouse have household.

In Louisiana, Shelley was beforehand the information director at WDSU TV, a tv station in New Orleans. There, he oversaw the station’s redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina. Shelley managed the south Louisiana newsroom for almost 10 years earlier than shifting to a family-owned tv station in Indiana.

WBRZ is owned by the Manship household of Baton Rouge.

Shelley studied journalism at Northwestern College in Evanston, Illinois, has taught journalism and was a TV information producer earlier in his profession. His govt administration positions embody information director roles at two TV stations and as an assistant information director in Oklahoma Metropolis and Las Vegas.

The newsrooms he has led have obtained a number of Nationwide Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Emmy Awards for total Information Excellence, the Walker Cronkite Award for excellence in political journalism and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards from the Society of Skilled Journalists.

Shelley takes the helm of the WBRZ information division from Trey Schmaltz, who was named the station’s common supervisor in August as Rocky Daboval retires from WBRZ after greater than 4 a long time with the corporate.

“WBRZ gives a singular setting… in an trade dominated by massive companies. I welcome the possibility to increase the custom Channel 2 has established,” Shelley stated.

“Jonathan is not only a textbook journalist, he is a artistic information supervisor who understands the altering dynamics of the native information panorama. I am excited to have him as a part of our crew,” Schmaltz stated.

Shelley, who begins on the finish of October, will oversee probably the most quantity of native information on tv within the Baton Rouge viewing space: Eight hours of stories Monday-Friday and a few 4 hours of regionally produced content material on the weekends throughout two stations: WBRZ, the ABC affiliate, and the impartial broadcast and streaming information channel, WBRZ Plus.

WBRZ, WBRZ Plus and Baton Rouge’s WBTR are owned by the Manship household of Louisiana who’ve a hundred-year historical past producing broadcast information and print dailies in South Louisiana. The Manship household additionally owns a number of stations programming from KRGV TV in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.