Former Southeastern Channel sports reporter-anchor Richie Mills has been hired as Sports Reporter-Anchor for WGNO-TV Channel 26 (ABC) in New Orleans (DMA 50). Mills will be covering local professional, college and high school sports each day for WGNO’s “News With a Twist” newscasts in addition to serving as a fill-in anchor on weekends. Mills moves into the Sports MMJ position after one year of serving as Morning News Producer of WGNO’s morning newscasts. A 2015 graduate of Southeastern, Mills moved to New Orleans from Shreveport (DMA 82) where he was a news reporter for KTBS-TV Channel 3 (ABC) and served as East Texas Correspondent. Prior to that, he was Morning Show news producer at KATC-TV Channel 3 (ABC) in Lafayette (DMA 120) where his morning newscast won first place in the Associated Press Louisiana-Mississippi Broadcasters competition. At the Southeastern Channel, Mills was reporter-anchor for “Northshore News” and reporter-anchor-producer for “The Big Game” sportscast, winning national honors from the Videographer Awards and regional Mark of Excellence honors from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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