Media Frenzy
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Rob Holbert
Managing Editor |
WPMI’s award-winning senior reporter Bruce Mildwurf has joined the parade of longtimers to leave the NBC affiliate.
Mildwurf tendered his resignation to station management to accept a position as a reporter at WRAL in Raleigh, N.C., according to a e-mail sent to the station’s staff Friday afternoon by News Director Michael McCormick.
Mildwurf has been with the station more than eight years and has won numerous awards for his reporting. Of note are his pieces “For Lauren’s Sake,” which dealt with Alabama Medicaid’s practices of dealing with children and won a national Dupont Award. Mildwurf also won the Casey Medal for a two-year-long series “Nick’s Crusade,” which also dealt with Medicaid policy for disabled children and led to a change in federal law. He has also won numerous Edward R. Murrow Awards.
“He is a consummate professional and an outstanding journalist,” McCormick wrote in his e-mail.
Mildwurf is the latest in a string of prominent reporters and anchors to leave WPMI over the past year.
Rob Holbert is Lagniappe managing editor. Contact him at rholbert@lagniappemobile.com.
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