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Hudson joins WDAZ as anchor, producer

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Rob Hudson is a new anchor and producer at WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks, N.D.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Rob Hudson has joined the news team at WDAZ-TV and will be co-anchoring and producing the station’s 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, News Director Chris Regimbal has announced.

Hudson, an Elk River, Minn., native, graduated from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., and comes to WDAZ-TV after a stint in Missoula, Mont.

“We are excited about Rob’s arrival,” Regimbal said, “and we especially value his experience having grown up here in the region. Rob is a valuable addition to our WDAZ news team.”

WDAZ-TV, an ABC affiliate, is owned by Forum Communications Co., a multimedia information company based in Fargo. Forum Communications Co. owns dozens of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

FCC employees host ‘Living with Water’ community discussion

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Forum Communications Co. employees (at the front of the room) from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY-TV in Fargo host a discussion on the company's month's long multimedia reporting project known as "Living with Water." The Sunday (Feb. 19) discussion was held as a part of Concoridia College's Communiversity lifelong learning program.

Forum Communications Co. employees from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY-TV in Fargo hosted a community discussion Sunday (Feb. 19) in Moorhead, Minn., regarding the company’s “Living with Water” multimedia reporting project. The discussion was held as part of Concordia College’s F/M Communiversity Program which offers non-credit, educational, cultural and social opportunities for those interested in lifelong learning.

Forum Editor Matthew Von Pinnon moderated the panel discussion, and Forum reporters Kristen Daum, Marino Eccher and Patrick Springer offered their insights on what they learned during their months of research and writing on water topics, including flooding, diversion, and dam issues along the Missouri, Red and Sheyenne Rivers, along with ongoing concerns in the Devils Lake basin.

WDAY-TV metereologist John Wheeler discussed how weather patterns have played a role in water surplus and drought conditions.

Beginning last fall, FCC reporters from multiple locations – including Dickinson, Grand Forks and Jamestown, N.D.; Detroit Lakes, Minn.; and Mitchell, S.D. – undertook the “Living with Water” project, a multimedia reporting project involving print, broadcast and digital platforms, to build an understanding about water and its impacts on the lives of people in the Dakotas and Minnesota, including ways in which our uses of water impact other regions and how their uses impact us. Topics have included: coping with record-breaking flooding, demands for higher quality water and ways in which we ensure an adequate supply for the future.

The stories published five consecutive Sundays in The Forum, the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald, The Dickinson (N.D.) Press, The Jamestown (N.D.) Sun and The Daily Republic in Mitchell, S.D., and will culminate this coming Sunday (Feb. 26). The stories also are being shared on WDAY-TV in Fargo, WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks and online at http://water.areavoices.com.

Regimbal named news director at WDAZ in Grand Forks, N.D.

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Chris Regimbal

Chris Regimbal has been named news director at WDAZ Channel 8 in Grand Forks, N.D., a Forum Communications Co. station.

Regimbal, a 19-year veteran of the station, was previously an assignment editor and chief photographer at WDAZ. He started at WDAZ in 1991 as a sports photographer.

Regimbal is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared frequently on national television. In addition to contributing to the station’s daily news coverage, Regimbal has covered many of WDAZ’s biggest stories: In 2000, Regimbal was part of the WDAZ team that first reported from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, where troops from Grand Forks Air Force Base were among those patrolling the Iraq border after the Gulf War. In 2002, his news coverage for WDAZ was the first from Base X, the secret staging grounds for U.S. military attacks in Afghanistan. In 2003, he helped break the national story of the arrest of Alphonso Rodriguez Jr, later convicted in the abduction and murder of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin.

Regimbal has been honored numerous times by the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Associated Press Broadcasters Association in both Minnesota and North Dakota and received the North Dakota Broadcast News Association’s Teddy Award for the state’s best news report of the year. In addition, Regimbal’s work during the 1997 Grand Forks flood helped the station win a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, one of journalism’s highest honors.

Regimbal is a native of Stephen, Minn. and a graduate of Moorhead State University.