Popular Fox 61 TV News Reporter Leaves Post

CONNECTICUT — A well-known TV news reporter has left her job.

Zinnia Maldonado joined Fox 61 in January of 2019. She announced on Twitter Friday that she left her job as breaking news reporter, but did so a month ago.

“That’s a wrap,” she wrote, noting she’d also taken a “break from social media.”

Her last Tweet before the Friday announcement was June 19.

Maldonado, who graduated from Penn State with a journalism degree, worked for a PBS affiliate in Pennsylvania, interned for several months at two NBC local affiliates, one in Philadelphia and the other in Los Angeles, and spent several months working for a PBS station in Bethlehem, PA before joining Hartford-based Fox61 in 2019, according to her LinkedIn page.

In her sign-off on social media, she asked her 2,000 followers to “Stay tuned for the next move.”

According to her profile and LinkedIn, her role at the station was a the “lead night-side reporter for CT’s #1 10 p.m. broadcast.” She covered “breaking news while leveraging social media and community/official connections to bring exclusive angles to everyday stories.”

While at Penn State, which she attended on a full Bunton-Waller fellow scholarship, according to her LinkedIn, she was a reporter for the Daily Collegian Newspaper, was anchor for PSU-TV, writer for Penn State Journalists for Diversity newsletter, and was a Latino Caucus member.