Gone Gaming
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A Big Easy Anchor is leaving for the gaming world.
WGNO Anchor Jackie Jing is leaving the Tribune station and is taking a job with the video game and entertainment media company IGN.
IGN is huge in the gaming world.
In addition to moving her closer to her family, the job switch fulfills a dream for Jing, who said she and her brother -- who died a year ago -- long shared an appetite for video games and comic books, and were both thus frequent readers of the IGN website. "My brother and I always wanted to work at IGN," she wrote.
A couple of months ago, on a whim, she applied for an open position at the company. She got it.
"This is obviously bittersweet," Jing wrote. "I am so grateful to WGNO for giving me the opportunity to deliver the news to the fine people of New Orleans for 3.5 years. I have never felt so loved and welcomed by a community. This beautiful city truly became my home.
She signs off tomorrow.
