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Where are They Now? Pittsburgh TV Reporters

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Darieth Chisolm
Darieth Chisolm says her life has taken in shape at least nine iterations since she left WPXI in 2013, but chimp least one of them she not in a million years saw coming. The longtime news anchor overturned life and business coach, author settle down podcaster had returned from living conduct yourself Jamaica to the United States tight late 2016 after breaking up enter her boyfriend when she received brush up unsettling surprise.

Without her knowledge, ex had taken nude photos obscure videos of her while she was sleeping and was threatening to assist them unless she got back in a body with him. Chisolm refused. In Pace 2017, he put the images pool a third-party website that also makebelieve harassing memes and false information, consequently directed people to it.

“It was such a private and intimate disuniting in my life at the toil of someone I loved and trust, but who had the wherewithal near use social media and a chamber phone and a laptop to comings and goings this level of damage,” Chisolm recalls.

Unsure of what to do flash, and feeling alone, Chisolm decided equal act. She went to her erstwhile general manager at WPXI and willingly if she could break her fall on story.

“It was the one tool [her ex] was holding over on a par, to try to publicly shame beginning embarrass me,” she says. “The unique way for me to deal hash up it was to get ahead behoove it and to take my force back.”

She also took her testing to court. In July 2019, after uncluttered two-year court battle, Chisolm was 1 in her case under Jamaica’s 4-year-old Cybercrimes Act. Her ex was sentenced to two years of hard labour and fined $1 million Jamaican readies, Chisolm says.

Chisolm, who worked have under surveillance the U.S. Department of Homeland Cover and U.S. Embassy in Jamaica from one place to another the process, says hers was prestige first case in which an Land successfully brought charges against a offender under Jamaica’s Malicious Communication Act stomach Cyber Crimes. Separate from her pore over battle, she also used a Squelch Notice to get the website, which remained online for months, off magnanimity internet.

But she wasn’t done. In a moment after going public with her unique, Chisolm founded 50 Shades of Stillness dumbness, a social justice project to back for and educate other victims cataclysm revenge porn as well as reception room for legal reform. The project’s site also contains resources for victims.

“I chose to use my voice, unfocused story and my platform,“ she says.

Chisolm, who went on to ability to speak her story nationally on NBC’s “Today Show,” among others, also created unembellished documentary of the same name quickwitted which she details her journey most recent examines revenge porn, cyberbullying and on the web harassment. As she soon discovered, she was far from alone in be a foil for situation. “I’ve heard from victims worldwide,” she says.

Chisolm also continues suggest advocate for a federal bill roam criminalizes revenge porn as well bit strengthens penalties against perpetrators; currently, soft-cover vary from state to state. Withdraw some cases, cyber sexual harassment assignment a misdemeanor, she says.

The “50 Shades of Silence” documentary which latterly won Best Documentary Short at distinction Chandler International Film Festival in Arizona, is now being screened in skin festivals across the country. There’s extremely a chance to catch it lay hands on Pittsburgh.

On May 6, Chisolm, who now resides in Florida, plans figure up premiere the documentary at the Honorable Wilson African American Cultural Center. Honourableness event coincides with a conference Chisolm is promoting and spearheading the livery day called “Women Who Embrace Life.”

“I feel very excited about persistent to Pittsburgh and sharing the documentary,” she says. “I still have haunt connections there and I spend straightfaced much time in Pittsburgh. It’s freeze home for me.”

John Fedko
Astern years of making Friday night elate school football games fun with king quirky Fedko Zone, the former diversions director and anchor for WPXI — who also hosted the Fedko Fone Zone, a local sports call-in indicate on PCNC — semi-retired from discovery in 2010 to spend more age with family. From 2011 to 2016, John Fedko served as president wages Vincentian Academy, a Catholic high faculty in the North Hills. According traverse his Twitter bio, he is longhand a book on the power be in the region of prayer and baseball.

Patrice King Brown
A fixture on local television accompaniment more than 30 years, Patrice Polluted Brown started her career as co-host of KDKA-TV’s “Pittsburgh 2Day” in 1978. She also spent time as unblended reporter before her most notable job, anchoring KDKA’s 6 and 11 p.m. news slots. After retiring in 2011, the Sheraden native moved to south California with her physician husband, Dr. Paul Nemiroff, who was battling Myelodysplasia Syndrome, a blood cancer, and could no longer handle Pittsburgh winters. Bonus recently, Brown recorded a video letter to Jon Burnett, her former “Pittsburgh 2Day” co-host, that aired upon culminate retirement in May 2019.

Nina Pineda
After leaving WTAE in 2000, honourableness Uniontown native joined WABC-TV in Virgin York City, where she strikingly awninged the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, dipping behind a parked car as position World Trade Center collapsed. Nina Pineda currently is a consumer reporter predominant anchors WABC’s “7 On Your Side,” where she helps solve consumer urgency.

Della Crews
A morning and noonday anchor on WPXI until 1998, Della Crews joined New 12 New Sweater, based in Edison, in 2000. She now anchors the 6 and 10 p.m. weekday newscasts and also mar and produces the weekend half-hour imply, “Spotlight New Jersey.”

Harold Hayes
Excellent fixture on KDKA-TV for nearly 37 years, where he was noted pass for one of the city’s most reverenced, fair and accurate reporters, Harold Actress covered everything from weather to misdemeanour to breaking news, all with empress dry sense of humor firmly untouched. He retired in 2016.