Over roughly the past year, Denver7 has drawn three journalists away from its competitor 9NEWS and into larger roles at the Scripps ABC affiliate also known as KMGH.
Last year, Denver7 hired Megan Jurgemeyer away from the local NBC affiliate where she was a news director.* She now leads the KMGH news department as its senior news director.
“I made the move to Denver7 last year because I was excited about the station’s vision and the company’s desire to find ways to stay relevant against the challenges of a shrinking audience for traditional broadcast news,” she said this week via email. “It’s a messy and difficult process, but I wanted to join a team unafraid to try new things to keep local journalism alive.”
Since then, meteorologist Danielle Grant traded her 9NEWS peacock logo for a Denver7 green screen after a decade at KUSA.
“I feel like I’m on cloud nine, but maybe I should say cloud seven here,” Grant said on air in April.
And now, this week, Anusha Roy, who was a 9NEWS reporter and anchor, announced she too has joined Denver7. She will be a morning anchor and will begin appearing on air later this month.
“I’ve always had just incredible respect for the Denver7 team,” Roy said in a statement. “There’s a lot of thoughtfulness into how the station covers the news.”
KUSA 9NEWS had its own shakeup at the top earlier this year when Linda Kicak left Denver’s KDVR FOX31 as its assistant news director to run the news division at 9NEWS. I sent some emails yesterday and left a voicemail for Kicak at the station this morning but didn’t hear back; I’ve not interacted with her before, and can’t be sure the messages reached her.
