View Post News Directors | ShopTalk Former WFLA Reporter, News Director Dies By Merrill Knox on Apr. 23, 2013 - 3:21 PM Former WFLA news director Joe Mannion has died after a long battle with renal cancer, according to The Tampa Tribune. He was 79. Mannion joined the Tampa NBC affiliate as a reporter in the mid 1960s and was named news director in ...