KQDS-TV, Channel 21, aka Fox 21, will bid adieu to co-anchor Amy Rutledge and welcome a couple of arrivals to its news team.
Rutledge has accepted a job as communications manager for Minnesota Power and its parent company, Allete. She will be responsible for the company's internal and external communications.
Rutledge has been with Fox since the launch of its local news broadcasts last year.
Prior to 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. From 2005 to 2007, Rutledge worked as an account manager for the Duluth public relations firm of WestmorelandFlint.
Rutledge's last broadcast at Fox will be July 9, and the station already has begun the search for her replacement.
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Fox 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 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., the past four years. He also worked as a feature reporter for FOX Sports Ohio and served four years in the U.S. Army before attending Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
