“The more I thought about it — especially because the news director had said there might be a job opening but nothing on air, nothing on camera — the more I thought, this is really the result of systemic and implicit gender and age bias,” she said in the interview over Zoom with her lawyers present. She won’t again chronicle the mistreatment of intellectually disabled people living in a local group home. "I'm done with broadcasting," she declared.
As a contract employee, she served at the pleasure of management, so no explanation or severance pay was required. Newkirk said they had reached out to the company seeking responses to questions about gender and age and possible implicit bias but got no response. Today, only one woman is in charge of a department (sales) at the station. Her biography on the WHO website says she has won multiple regional Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for her work, as well as other recognition.
"Over the years I took for granted from time to time that every day I got to sit next to a person I admire this much," said Winters, standing alone on the set. But she won’t be the one delivering that report on nightly news. For more than 17 years, Sonya has dedicated herself to serving the community and being a friend to all of us. WHO was bought last year by Nexstar Media. Her reaction? And when men won awards, promotional ads would be aired about them; not so for women, she said.
The real deal. She says every woman on television has to worry about this happening to her. But her departure was not of her choosing. Florida’s 29 electoral votes are expected to fall to the president, according to the Associated Press. Because everyone's contract is negotiated separately, there is no way to know whether men and women are paid equally at WHO. Get updates of all things Iowa politics delivered to your inbox. Prominent reporter and anchor Sonya Heitshusen leaves WHO-TV. People who are hurting. Heitshusen could not be reached for comment. This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Prominent reporter and anchor Sonya Heitshusen leaves WHO-TV, Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Virtual walk-run event to support rent assistance for Northern Virginia low-income tenants, Chipotle struggles with staffing as coronavirus cases rise. Take a look back at her remarkable career at WHO 13. WHO-TV's Sonya Heitshusen was denied a contract renewal but says no one criticized her work. The KCCI news team brings you the best in local coverage and all the top stories from across the state. WHO-TV's longtime investigative reporter and news anchor Sonya Heitshusen’s seemingly abrupt departure from the station last month generated tributes, at times tearful, from on-air co-workers, and questions from fans. People like me.". Speaking after a video retrospective of her career, Heitshusen did not address a reason for her departure.
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