Hart Named News Director at WAPT

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Ben Hart has been named news director Hearst TV's WAPT Jackson (Miss.). Hart succeeds Bruce Barkley, who has become news director at Hearst's WYFF Greenville (S.C.).

Hart has been WAPT's assistant news director since 2010. He graduated from Mississippi State University and worked in radio and TV in the Columbus, MS, market before joining WAPT.

"We are fortunate to have Ben," said Stuart Kellogg, WAPT president and GM. "He has an impressive record as a newsroom leader and is passionate about serving the viewers. Ben's strong journalistic background, managerial knowledge and experience covering in-depth news in Mississippi will help us to continue to build on those strengths."

WAPT is an ABC affiliate in DMA No. 90.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.