His career as a television news executive has taken him to TV markets around the country. Since 2015, he’s been in Savannah, Ga., working for ABC affiliate WJCL-22 as News Director.
Now, Sinan Sidar is being elevated to a newly created position designed to find the best talent to put in front of, and in back of, the camera across all Hearst Television newsrooms.
Sadar is now Director of News Talent Recruitment at Hearst Television.
In his new role, Sadar will work closely with the broadcast TV station owner’s news and human resources management and station executives to help identify top talent to join the company’s news operations across the 26 markets in which it operates over-the-air properties.
“Sinan’s extensive experience in multi-platform news management across five differentiated TV markets has helped him develop a great eye for on-camera talent and a deep understanding of all the needs of a modern newsroom,” said Hearst Television SVP/News Barbara Maushard. “He is already the go-to for his colleagues, having helped place dozens of journalists around the group. Sinan brings a strong foundation in creating and implementing strategies to recruit talented journalists from diverse communities who can be ready to work across all Hearst Television businesses.”
Sadar, Hearst says, will continue to source a diverse pool of candidates through minority and specialty-convention recruiting and by expanding relationships with colleges and universities across the country. He will also facilitate the Fred Young Producer Fellowship Program, named for Hearst Television’s retired former SVP/News.
Sadar relocated to Georgia in 2015, following a seven-year stint as News Director of WPTZ-5 and WNNE-TV in the Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y., market.
The Syracuse University Newhouse School grad first joined Hearst Television in 2004 as assistant news director at KOAT-7 in Albuquerque. Before that, he worked in news production at Houston stations KPRC-TV and KRIV-TV, and at Cleveland’s WKYC-TV.
