Former WWLP Anchor/Reporter (Springfield, MA) Nicole Nalepa is WFSB’s new morning traffic reporter. She replaces Olessa Stepanova who has moved on to WCVB in Boston.
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Former WWLP Anchor/Reporter (Springfield, MA) Nicole Nalepa is WFSB’s new morning traffic reporter. She replaces Olessa Stepanova who has moved on to WCVB in Boston.
Glad for her, but these “professional” traffic “reporters” just crack me up. So she actually abandoned journalism…reporting on, and writing the news…to do…umm..traffic? Won’t she get bored?? Wouldn’t you expect a career to go the *other* way, a traffic reporter aspiring to jump over to straight news? Or am I just out of touch with things?? Or are all “TV jobs” basically just lumped together now as, “being on TV”?? 84 eastbound slow going through the West Hartford curves between 7 and 9 am. There….I can do it too!!
“Nicole was selected for a post-grad summer internship at CBS News in New York City on the “Evening News with Katie Couric.” She also interned at WFXT-Fox 25 in Boston and WWLP.
Nicole is excited to be a part of the #1 news station in Connecticut. She’s also happy to be situated closer to her family in New York.”
The quoted above is from her introduction I read when I followed the hyperlink. Why assume that’s all she’ll be doing is traffic? Maybe they and she have additional plans for her.
Show me one quote from one local TV news operation’s press release about a new hire that does NOT say,” so-and-so is excited (thrilled/overjoyed, insert one of the usual words here) to be joining the greatest, bestest most superist news organization in the Milky Way Galaxy..” ??
And the last Hartford Traffic Reporter to double as a regularly-appearing spot news/hard news reporter was………………………………………………….. (hosting a “lifestyle” program doesn’t count)?????? If this young lady does it, it will be ground-breaking.
I understand your point. I focused more on the line that about being happy to be situated closer to her family in New York. She sounds like a very accomplished individual. We watch WFSB in the morning and have already seen her. Now I’ll be watching closer.
I don’t think becoming a spot news/hard news reporter is the ultimate goal of all people in the “news” business anymore so I personally think progressing from Traffic Reporter to “lifestyle” program host is an accomplishment. Nothing wrong with that….standing out in the middle of a blizzard or hosting a cooking segment….I know what I’d choose!
More venom and jealousy about the people who get jobs presented to you by the people who didn’t.
Yes, you hit it. I am “venomous” and “jealous” of traffic reporters. LOL! Oh, and I am gainfully employed, successful, and happy, and I know you are happy for me. Thanks!:)
My point stands (apparently “Traffic Girl” gets it, too). Moving from news reporter (which requires an education and a degree of smarts) to traffic reporter (which requires no education) shows that it’s all just “show bizzzzz” and “being on TV” for today’s young un’s, not about refining your reporting chops for bigger markets.
Anyway, again…traffic reporting on the radio (while one is presumably already in their car listening) is a good service. Traffic reporting on TV…just cracks me up!:)
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So according to Jake ANYONE who takes the job is taking for the wrong reasons. Glad you can be so broad in your pronouncements. On the other hand, I prefer to know the traffic situation before I leave the house and have no urge to listen to 40 minutes of radio commercials sandwiched around a 30-second update on road conditions. Keep enjoying your current job as you troll jealously on this site.
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