Local TV news viewers may soon notice a familiar face that they’ve grown accustomed to seeing on one news station pop up on another.
KDKA-TV reporter Nicole Ford will join WPXI-TV later this week as a full-time reporter, WPXI confirmed to the Post-Gazette. She will become the rare local reporter to jump from one of the area’s big three news stations to a direct competitor.
Ford declined to comment on her career move.
The Mars native and West Virginia University graduate first joined KDKA in 2019 after cutting her teeth in the broadcast journalism world at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, S.C., and WCTI-TV in eastern North Carolina. She celebrated her one-year anniversary at KDKA on Dec. 4.
In addition to Ford joining WPXI’s news team, Susan Koeppen will anchor her first 4 p.m. newscast for the station Monday. Like Ford, Koeppen has also worked at multiple Pittsburgh news stations and as of Monday will have completed the triple crown of being employed by KDKA, WPXI and WTAE at various points throughout her career.
WPXI is bringing in more talent after recently losing meteorologist Daniel Dozier and investigative reporter Aaron Martin. The station also recently announced that it will no longer be producing or broadcasting the annual holiday parade that had been ringing in the holiday season in Pittsburgh for almost 40 years.
Joshua Axelrod: jaxelrod@post-gazette.com and Twitter @jaxelburgh.
First Published: September 13, 2021, 4:18 p.m.
