6abc lands a Philly native to lead ‘Action News’ after predecessor’s abrupt exit – Inquirer.com

6abc lands a Philly native to lead ‘Action News’ after predecessor’s abrupt exit  Inquirer.com

Nneka Nwosu heads to Philly from Chicago to take over as news director, where among other things she'll oversee Cecily Tynan's successor. Nneka Nwosu heads to Philly from Chicago to take over as news director, where among other things she’ll oversee Cecily Tynan’s successor. After more than five months, 6abc finally has a news director. The station announced Nneka Nwosu, a Philadelphia native serving as the vice president of marketing and local programming at sister-station WLS in Chicago, would take over running the Action News newsroom. 6abc president John Morris announced the move to staff in an email Tuesday, noting that Nwosu is such a big Eagles fan “their 2018 Super Bowl win may have actually sent her into labor with one of her sons.” “Running the news department at the station I grew up watching is surreal!” Nwosu wrote on LinkedIn, adding she was “thrilled to be coming home.” Nwosu spent the past four years in Chicago, previously serving as one of the station’s assistant news directors.

Prior to that, she spent eight years at Boston ABC affiliate WCVB. At 6abc, Nwosu is inheriting the city’s most-watched newscast dating back more than 40 years. Her first day in the newsroom will be Oct. 5, and among her first tasks will be overseeing a new chief meteorologist following the retirement