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Changing Channels

United Talent Agency has a number of client moves to report:

BILL HEMMER becomes a client of United Talent Agency and continues to co-anchor America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel.
 
ZACHARY KIESCH becomes a New York-based Correspondent for ABC News.
 
JEFFREY TOOBIN is promoted to Chief Legal Analyst for CNN.
 
T.J. HOLMES becomes a client of United Talent Agency and enters into a new agreement with ABC News to remain a New York-based Correspondent.
 
ROXANA SABERI heads to London to become a Correspondent for CBS News. Prior to this move, she was a freelance Correspondent at CBS Newspath in New York, NY.
 
GEOFF BENNETT moves from NPR to become a Washington, DC-based Correspondent for NBC News.
 
KEN BUFFA joins WNBC-TV in New York, NY as a reporter from WVIT-TV in Hartford, CT.
 
CANDACE MCCOWAN is promoted to staff reporter from freelance at WABC-TV in New York City.
 
DERICK WALLER joins WABC-TV in New York, NY as a GA reporter. Prior to this move, he was a reporter for WEWS-TV in Cleveland, OH.
 
ZAINAB SALBI becomes a client of United Talent Agency and will host the PBS series, “#MeToo, Now What?”
 
JILL SCHLESINGER enters into a new agreement with CBS News, who has licensed her radio show, “Jill on Money.”
 
ERIC LEONARD becomes a reporter with KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, CA.
 
MARK RIVERA becomes a client of United Talent Agency and joins WLS-TV in Chicago as a weekend morning anchor/reporter. Prior to this move, he was an anchor/political reporter at WTSP-TV in Tampa, FL.
 
VINITA NAIR returns to her hometown of Dallas, TX from CBS News in New York, NY to work for KXAS-TV as a Special Assignments reporter/anchor.
 
ANOUSHAH RASTA joins KNTV, the NBC O&O in the Bay Area, as a reporter/anchor from KPRC-TV in Houston, TX.
 
AMAKA UBAKA is promoted to weekend evening anchor at WHDH-TV in Boston, MA from reporter.
 
MICHAEL YOSHIDA becomes a client of United Talent Agency and joins WHDH-TV in Boston, MA as a reporter.  Prior to this move, he was reporter at WJAX-TV in Jacksonville, FL.
 
ROOP RAJ is promoted to weeknight 5:30pm anchor at WJBK-TV in Detroit, MI.
 
VANESSA RUFFES becomes a client of United Talent Agency and enters into a new agreement to continue as traffic anchor at WTVT-TV in Tampa, FL.
 
KATHRYN BROWN is named M-F evening anchor/reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh-Durham, NC. Previously, she was the weekend evening anchor/reporter at WRAL-TV.
 
JOSH CHAPIN joins WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, NC as a reporter/fill-in anchor. Prior to this move, he was a reporter at KHOU-TV in Houston, TX.
 
ADAM SNIDER is promoted to weekend anchor at WKRN-TV in Nashville, TN from reporter.  
 
CHRISTINA WATKINS joins WDSU-TV in New Orleans, LA as a weekend morning anchor.
 
MICHELLE MACKONOCHIE becomes a client of United Talent Agency and jumps 87 markets as she is set to join WINK-TV as a weekday AM anchor/reporter. Prior to this move, she was an anchor/reporter at WMDT-TV in Salisbury, MD.
 
TERI HORNSTEIN is promoted to M-F morning breaking news and noon anchor at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, FL from weekend evening anchor.
 
SHAYLA REAVES joins WNCT-TV in Greenville, NC to become the main anchor from her reporting duties at WTVT-TV in Tampa, FL.
 
NAJAHE SHERMAN joins WAAY-TV in Huntsville, AL as a weekday morning anchor from reporter at WKRN-TV in Nashville, TN.
 
RACHEL SPOTTS is promoted to anchor from reporter at News 12 Westchester.
 
Bill, Zachary, Jeffrey, T.J., Roxana, Geoff, Ken, Candace, Derick, Zainab, Jill, Eric, Mark, Vinita, Anoushah, Amaka, Michael, Roop, Vanessa, Kathryn, Josh, Adam, Christina, Michelle, Teri, Shayla, Najahe, and Rachel are represented by Carole Cooper, Adam Leibner, Steve Sadicario, Richard Leibner, Peter Goldberg, Crystal Johns, Rick Ramage, Jennifer Campanile, Lia Aponte and Miae Shin at United Talent Agency 888 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10106, (212) 659-2600.  To meet all of our agents, link to www.unitedtalent.com.