Oregon Media Insiders

According to her personal blog (http://puginthepearl.blogspot.com) it appears that she's heading to NYC to attend grad school at Columbia.

Update by Lynn: Anita herself weighs in, confirming in the comments.

The news is all here, on her blog:

http://jewel-images.com/blog/?p=311

My wife really likes Julia's reporting and anchoring. I think she's fine, too, but if she'd rather trade her mic for a still camera, then we wish her the best. I guess.

WWeek is reporting that KATU sports gal Katy Brown is in talks with Rose City Radio to do a sports show on 95.5. We've heard rumors of Jammin' flipping to sports for a while now. If these new rumors are true, Brown would be paired with former KFXX guy and Columbian sportswriter Ken Vance:

Neither would confirm they’re doing the new show, but neither denied it. “KATU is the only place I’m employed right now,” Brown says. Vance, now a reporter at The Reflector in Battle Ground, Wash., referred Murmurs to McNamara, who didn’t return a call.

Geez, KATU, last person out, turn out the lights or something...

Yesterday KINK finally broke its silence about Les Sarnoff's extended absence. After approximately 3 weeks of saying Les was on vacation or saying nothing at all, Dave Scott and Sheila Hamilton did quite the little on-air dance around the subject. They talked about Les taking some time off to address a personal matter, mentioning that it was not health related, and that he had been at the beach with his wife last week trying to figure out some things related to the direction of his life. (All of this is highly paraphrased because I was barely awake.)