[StBernard] WVUE picks new news director

[Westley Annis]

F.Y.I.
 
WVUE now has two Chalmettians as departmart directors. Heidi Hoffmeister
formally of Emmis Broadcasting in Orlando is the new Program Director.
Heidi was with WVUE  eight years ago before transferring to Emmis in
Orlando. Heidi is a 1987 graduate of the Academy of the Holy Angels.


Judy Darby Hoffmeister


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	WVUE picks new news director
	Posted by Dave Walker, TV columnist, The Times-Picayune November 10,
2008
	12:32PM
	
	Mikel Schaefer, author of the 2007 book, "Lost in Katrina," was
named
	WVUE-Channel 8 will be the station's new news director. New Orleans
Fox
	network affiliate WVUE-Channel 8 has announced that Mikel Schaefer,
	currently assistant news director at CBS affiliate WWL-Channel 4,
will be
	the station's new news director. 
	
	He replaces Mimi Strawn, who departed WVUE in October for WAFF-TV in
	Huntsville, Ala. 
	
	A graduate of Chalmette High School and the University of New
Orleans,
	Schaefer is author of the 2007 book "Lost in Katrina," which
	recounted St.
	Bernard Parish's experiences during the hurricanes of 2005.