CNBC announced Monday morning that Emily Wilkins is joining the network as a correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau covering Congress, key regulatory issues and policies that impact American businesses and the economy. Wilkins arrives at CNBC from Bloomberg Government, where she covered Congress with a focus on House leadership. She previously covered education and labor for both Bloomberg Government and CQ Roll Call.
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir is the top-rated national evening newscast yet again. For the week leading into Memorial Day, ABC News’ evening juggernaut averaged 7.40 million total viewers and more than 1.14 million A25-54 viewers. That’s according to live plus same day data from Nielsen for the week beginning May 22, 2023. WNT marked its ninth consecutive week as the most-watched regularly-scheduled U.S. show across broadcast and cable, and has now defeated its evening news competition from NBC and CBS 234 of the past 235 weeks in average total viewers—and 163 of the last 165 weeks among Adults 25-54.
Tiffany Justice has headed west as of May 2023 to KRON 4 San Francisco television after leaving FOX 26 Houston TV KRIV in November 2022. Justice joined KRIV in 2019 from her hometown station KUTV 2 Salt Lake City, Utah where she had been a reporter and fill-in anchor starting in 2017. A University of Utah grad, Justice previously worked for KOCO5 News Oklahoma City as a weekend morning anchor and reporter. The Rocky Mountain Emmy Award winner began her TV news career at KTVZ NewsChannel 21 Central Oregon as a producer/reporter/anchor.
NBC’S Boston O&O WBTS has hired Matt Prichard as NBC10 Boston television political reporter. Prichard, an award-winning journalist who has been covering news and politics for more than a decade, will begin his new role on Monday, Aug. 7. Prichard comes to Boston from KUSI San Diego television where he was a weekend anchor and weekday reporter.
Deevon Rahming is joining KHOU 11 Houston television via TEGNA sister-station KARE 11 Minneapolis, Minnesota where he’s a reporter. Rahming joined KARE 11 in January 2020 from ABC 15 News WPDE Florence, South Carolina where he had been a multimedia journalist since December 2017. The Florida State University grad interned with WSB Atlanta television and worked as a production assistant for Fox 4 News WFTX Fort Myers, Florida. The Florida Keys native also worked as a WINK News production assistant while in high school.