Media Moves

Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate hires Washburn as sports reporter

Ashely Washburn

WTMJ-TV Ch. 4, an NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, has hired Ashely Washburn as a sports reporter. She wrote on Twitter:

“Can’t wait to start covering all things Packers, Bucks, Brewers, both the Big Ten & Big East, plus local prep sports.”

Recently, Washburn was a sports reporter and anchor at KBZK-TV Ch. 7, a CBS and CW Plus station in Bozeman, Mont.

In San Diego, Washburn worked as a freelance story producer for NBC outlet KNSD-TV Ch. 39, and held the posts of assignment editor and field producer/reporter at KUSI-TV Ch. 51.

She interned at ESPN and NBCUniversal.

Washburn has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from San Diego State University-California State University, where she was a sports writer at the student newspaper The Daily Aztec.

Be sure to reach out to Washburn via Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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