Congratulations to longtime LR pal and commenter Michael Gay on his new job, found right here in our jobs section. Michael, who was a huge success in Chicago as WBBM’s web guru, will become Hearst-Argyle’s first executive producer of digital media. He’ll be working with H-A’s Director of Digital Media, Jacques Natz, to shape the content of the company’s 29 TV station websites. Like many of us, Michael started in TV news production before making the jump to the web. He goes back to the dark days of the late ’90s in internet news, the web equivalent of remembering when they shot TV news on film. (Disclosure: My client, NECN, is half-owned by Hearst.) UPDATES: Michael writes in the comments below: “Thanks Steve for the nice congrats! I’m very excited to get up to Minneapolis and get started…. of course I saw the job here on lostremote. Is there a better place to learn about new media jobs?” And Rex adds a very good point: “…this job is based out of IBS HQ in Minneapolis, which is the first arrangement they’ve had like that.”
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