{"id":2645,"date":"2007-08-01T01:54:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/jtm-dc-cody-howard\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:54:55","slug":"jtm-dc-cody-howard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/jtm-dc-cody-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jtm-dc-Cody Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jtm-dc-cody-howard.jpg\" alt=\" Cody Howard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cody Howard has been News Director at 6News since December 2000. He oversees a staff of 17 and works closely with print and online staffers and editors to facilitate daily convergence and long-range, cross-media projects. He also works closely with 6News sister station KTKA in Topeka, Kansas coordinating daily news and big-picture collaborations. <\/p>\n<p>Under his guidance, 6News claimed the national 2005 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. The station is also a two-time winner of the National Cable Television Association&#8217;s Community Spirit Award for Achievement in Local Programming &#8212; and recently received special recognition for outstanding commitment to local news production from the Mid-America Telecommunications Association. <\/p>\n<p>He serves on the board of the Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross and coordinates numerous community service projects for the station throughout the year. <\/p>\n<p>In his spare time, he enjoys running, playing softball and spending time with his two nieces. He came to Channel 6 in March 2000 after 3 years as a reporter for KLWN\/KLZR radio in Lawrence. He also spent a year as a freelance sports writer for the Pitch Weekly in Kansas City. He&#8217;s a native Kansan and 1997 graduate of Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Howard has been News Director at 6News since December 2000. He oversees a staff of 17 and works closely with print and online staffers and editors to facilitate daily convergence and long-range, cross-media projects. He also works closely with 6News sister station KTKA in Topeka, Kansas coordinating daily news and big-picture collaborations. Under his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}