Stephen Cropper is staying in the Pittsburgh market, becoming the new chief meteorologist for WPXI.  Cropper leaves WTAE where he has been since 1995.

Matt Lorch is moving home to Seattle, where he’s set to become the new 5 p.m. anchor for KCPQ.  He leaves Boston’s WHDH where he anchored early evenings and reported.

Don Teague joins Fox O&O KRIV in Houston as primary anchor.  Teague departs CBS News where he was a Texas-based correspondent for the last two years, and prior, was with NBC News based in Dallas and Atlanta.

Melissa Long is returning to Atlanta to join WXIA as 10 p.m. anchor.  Most recently, Long was an anchor and correspondent for Bloomberg TV in New York. Read more

WCBS sent out its “sidewalk ice patrol” on Wednesday to report on the slippery conditions of New York’s walkways. What began as a public service, though, ended with questions of journalism ethics.

During its 6 p.m. newscast, the CBS flagship ran a segment in which reporter Dave Carlin and a videographer captured several people slipping and falling on an icy corner of Queens.

“Is it fair–or even human–to stand nearby, let folks walk into a video trap, and then put them on the air?” asks media critic Richard Huff of the Daily News. “Probably not.” Video inside… Read more