WXMI, Grand Rapids, Names Jace Larson Senior Director of News

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Journalist had been director of newsgathering at Scripps News

Jace Larson
Jace Larson (Image credit: E.W. Scripps)

WMXI, the Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said it named Jace Larson as senior director of news.

Larson had been director of newsgathering at Scripps News. Scripps News and WMXI are owned by the E.W. Scripps Co.

Larson is replacing Dan Boers who left the station in July.

At Scripps News, Larson oversaw the general assignment reporting team. He previously managed teams within the Scripps local-national operation before it merged with Scripps News.

Earlier in his career, Larson worked as a reporter at stations including KUSA and KMGH in Denver, KPRC, Houston, and KOKI, Tulsa. He won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for uncovering and dismantling a foreclosure scam in Colorado.

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