Newsy just announced the journalists staffing its Texas news bureau.
The E.W. Scripps Company news outlet, which says it is the nation’s only free 24/7 broadcast news network, is now available in 90% of US TV homes through over the air (OTA) digital sub-channels, Newsy.com and streaming services.
Newsy launched on free TV October 4, 2021, but has been streaming since 2008.
“We believe it’s imperative to have reporters all over the country, living in or near the communities they cover and interacting with people from all walks of life,” said Eric Ludgood, head of Newsy. “That is going to help us capture the perspectives of a wide range of America.”
Here are the reporters staffing the Newsy Texas bureau in Dallas.
Jamal Andress, Justice Correspondent
Andress’ storytelling has taken him from Accra, Ghana, to cover international education, to Chicago’s Southwest Side to report on the shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent trial of Jason Van Dyke. In one of his most memorable interviews, Andress went to Charlottesville, Virginia, and spoke with Susan Bro, whose daughter Heather Heyer was killed during the “United the Right” rally a year earlier.
John Mone, National Correspondent
Mone has worked in television news for 20 years and was most recently at the Associated Press. Over the last 14 years, he covered some of the biggest breaking news stories and events, including being among the first wave of media to arrive in Haiti after a catastrophic earthquake destroyed much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and Leogane. He’s covered the Olympics, World Cup, death of Michael Jackson, worst oil spill in U.S. history, and spent six months on the 2012 Romney presidential campaign.
Scott Withers, Meteorologist
After a four-time Emmy-winning career as an ABC News producer and reporter based out of Florida, Withers re-invented himself as a meteorologist, climate scientist and geologist. Before ABC News, he worked for CNN in New York, London and Atlanta.
Here are the Texas television stations now carrying Newsy:
Amarillo
KAUO
15.6
Austin
KVAT-LD
17.6
Corpus Christi
KRIS
6.6
Dallas-Ft. Worth
KPXD
68.7
McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen-Weslaco
KAZH
57.3
Houston
KPXB
49.7
*UPDATE: The Newsy website says it is 49.6 and it shows on my guide that Newsy is on that channel, but according to a viewer email and my checking, Newsy is actually airing on 49.7 in Houston. 49.6 is actually the TruReal channel in Houston.
Lubbock
K32OV-D
24.4
San Antonio
KPXL
26.7
Tyler-Longview-Lufkin-Nacogdoches
KPKN
33.4
Waco-Temple-Killeen-Bryan
KXXV
25.5
