Doug Walker joining Rome News-Tribune as associate editor
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Doug Walker
Today Walker wraps up a 25-year career with WRGA. As news director there he has hosted “Good Morning Live” each weekday and is known for his live reports from Rome High football games and election nights as well.
“I am thrilled to have Doug join our news team. He has extensive experience covering news in the Greater Rome area and has a tremendous network throughout Northwest Georgia,” said editor Charlotte Atkins. “The Rome News-Tribune is now a multimedia news agency delivering news in our print edition, online and through video programming and reporting. Doug will fit well into what we do here and what we’re creating for the future.”
Walker will be the associate editor in the newsroom, helping shape the daily news report as well as continuing to cover news. His focus will be business, community development and health care.
“I am tremendously excited about new opportunities at the Rome News-Tribune. I’m looking forward to going into more depth on stories than we are able to on radio,” said Walker.
In addition to daily news stories, those opportunities include the newspaper’s Word on the Street column reports, Sunday Business centerpiece stories as well as hosting RN-T.com’s online video program “Studio Central’s Face to Face” that features one-on-one interviews with local newsmakers.
Before coming to Rome, Walker worked at radio stations in Columbus, Waycross and Montgomery, Ala.
He also spent a couple of years with the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C., in the late ’70s.
An Auburn graduate, Walker is an award-winning journalist and past president of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
He is a member of the Heritage Riverways Foundation board, the Chieftains Museum board of directors and the Rome-Floyd County Commission on Children and Youth board.
“Doug is very involved in our community, and that’s a huge part of what he brings to our team,” Atkins said. “I know our readers and community leaders will appreciate that as he continues to circulate in town doing what he’s known for — covering our area with integrity and passion.”
Added Walker, “I’m glad I get to continue being a big part of our community. I really do love it.”
Walker is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys travel and nature photography, which makes Alaska a favorite destination for him.
He and his wife Gail have two children and five grandchildren.
Rome News-Tribune publisher Otis M. Raybon Jr. welcomes Walker to the local newspaper.
“We are pleased to have Doug join our news staff. His vast knowledge of Rome and Floyd County will add much depth to the stories we present daily to our readers and growing web audience,” said Raybon. “Doug is joining a great news team and will immediately add value for our readers.”
I quit listening to them when they dropped the fm broadcast of the am station.
I can pick up am 750 much better and they give professional relevant news there.
Those idiots that they have doing the news on wrga now are truly as unprofessional as it gets.
I guess Nelle will be next on the chopping block.
I can't imagine anyone listening to wrga if her show is taken off the air.
Q102 is a joke, south 107 is fairly decent, the fm 95.3 is irrelevant. How in the world do they sell advertising?