Olesker: WBAL News Director's Departure Another Blow to Local News
Priorities have changed for radio newsman Mark Miller. "I want to have dinner with my wife and child,” he says.
7 CommentsIn the springtime of his 52nd year, with an Air Force wife home from the war and a daughter desiring his attention, Mark Miller says he’s leaving WBAL. It’s a body blow to local radio, which needs all the good news people it can find.
Frankly, it needs any news people at all.
Miller, who grew up in Woodlawn, has spent three decades at WBAL. The last 21 years, he’s been news director there, keeping the coverage straight no matter how conservative the station’s surrounding talk shows have gotten. And he’s kept the coverage as comprehensive as possible despite any newsroom depth.
As everybody knows, the practice of news-gathering is going through some remarkable changes, much involving downsizing.
"The business,” Miller acknowledges, “has changed.”
He means not just radio, but...
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