In October 2023, when Nexstar Media Group finalized its acquisition of McKinnon Broadcasting Co. and San Diego’s KUSI-TV, Steve Cohen’s 20-year run as KUSI’s news director was over. At the time, Cohen was in his 50th year of working in television news.
During his half-century in TV newsroom executive positions, Cohen managed TV newsrooms in some of America’s largest markets, including New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, as well as stations in Arkansas, Utah and Buffalo, New York. His earned his first news director job in 1973 in Peoria, Ill.
Since leaving KUSI three years ago, Cohen has kept
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