Posted by chicagomedia.org on March 27, 2009 at 10:08:58:
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NEW BEGINNING | Former WMAQ reporter Jacobson to join Roe Conn on WLS
March 27, 2009
LEWIS LAZARE | Sun-Times Media & Marketing Columnist
She's back! Sources confirm that Amy Jacobson soon will come on board as Roe Conn's new sidekick on his afternoon drive show on WLS-AM (890), the iconic news/talk station that is now showing growing ratings strength in all key times of day. The addition of Jacobson is likely to garner additional attention for the AM outlet.
In July 2007, Jacobson became a journalistic cause celebre when she was dumped as a reporter at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 after she was caught on camera by a CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 camera crew at the home of Craig Stebic, husband of Lisa Stebic, who had gone missing. At the time Jacobson said she had gone to the Stebic house clad in a bikini with her children in tow to gather more potential pertinent information about the Lisa Stebic story, which she was actively involved in reporting for WMAQ.
Since the Stebic debacle, Jacobson had been unable to find another television news job, but she appeared on WLS-AM in recent months, and she has gotten high marks for having a certain tough edge that station management and talent already on air at WLS had found to their liking. Jacobson is expected to start her new regular gig with Roe Conn in early May.