Not sure how the audience benefits from seeing the new meteorologist go shopping, but that is exactly what Tegna’s WKYC did.

The station posted a story by fairly new hire Jason Mikell.

Mikell joined the Tegna station 6 months ago and while the station says he will be “specializing in weather forecasting and climate change….” they had him shopping at a home design studio.

This story seems like nothing more than bought and paid for news coverage. But, I didn’t see anything on the webpage that said this was pay for play.

I defiantly didn’t see anything in the story about weather or climate change.

This is Tegna…