WPBF News 25 announced today Paige Harrison is the stations new news director. She comes from another Hearst-owned station ABC affiliate WTAE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she was the assistant news director since 2010. A Toronto, Canada native Harrison has worked at several other Hearst stations – as an assistant ND at KOCO in Oklahoma City and as dayside executive producer at WESH in Orlando.
Paige Harrison is taking over news director duties at WPBF after Hears moved former ND Kyle Grimes to WPTZ in Plattsburg-Burlington.
According to the press release, Harrison’s official first day at WPBF will be October 1, just in time for sweeps.