KQDS-TV, Channel 21, will bid adieu to co-anchor Amy Rutledge and has welcomed two new members to its Fox 21 News team.
Rutledge has accepted a job as communications manager for Minnesota Power and its parent company, Allete. She will be responsible for the internal and external communications.
Rutledge has been with Fox 21 News since the launch of its local news broadcast last year.
Before that, she worked more than seven years at KDLH-TV, Channel 3, as a reporter, anchor and assignment editor. In 2005, she lost her job along with more than 30 other KDLH employees when the station was sold to Malara Broadcast Group, which consolidated news operations with KBJR-TV, Channel 6. From 2005 to 2007, Rutledge worked as an account manager for the Duluth public relations firm of WestmorelandFlint.
Rutledge's last Fox 21 broadcast will be July 9. The station already has begun a search for her replacement.
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Fox 21 also announced two recent hires: news reporter Joy Redmond and reporter/weekend sports anchor Greg Chandler.
Redmond was a reporter and on-air host for Comcast Cablevision in Detroit and a producer for the Word Network, a national channel featuring faith programming. She graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Chandler, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., was a producer and sports anchor for WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, W.Va., for the past four years. He also worked as a features reporter for Fox Sports Ohio and served four years in the U.S. Army before attending Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Fox 21 and the News Tribune have a media partnership in which the two regularly share news stories.
