Crossing the Street in New York

WCBS lost both its General Manager and News Director after the parent company conducted an investigation into the actions of Peter Dunn and David Friend.

Both Dunn and Friend were fires and now WCBS’s Assistant News Director Nicole Tindiglia has abandoned the ship.

Tindiglia is crossing the street to be the new News Director at Nexstar’s WPIX in the Big Apple.

“I am extremely proud to be joining the PIX11 news team, and I am well-aware of PIX11’s history and legacy of service to New York area viewers. This is a critical time for journalists to deliver relevant content to our local news consumers. New York City is facing a number of questions on housing, food insecurity, homelessness and healthcare. We are in the middle of an important mayoral election which requires a commitment to issue-based reporting on the candidates. I look forward to working with the skilled team at PIX11 to deliver expanded political reporting and programming in the weeks to come. Now that sports are back in action in New York, this is a perfect time to expand our partnerships with Mets and Yankee games on PIX11 by providing market leading coverage of our ‘very own’ teams. I am eager to get started,” Tindiglia said.

She will be the second in her family to serve as News Director of a New York City television station, following her late father Ron Tindiglia’s impactful career in local broadcast journalism in the 1970s and 1980s.