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TV News Morning Reporter Departs WTNH-TV

Samaia Hernandez announced that Friday was her last day at the New Haven-based station.

CONNECTICUT — Samaia Hernandez, a morning reporter at WTNH-TV for the past three-plus years, announced she left the New Haven-based station on Friday.

"How do you say goodbye to the best team?" she wrote on her social media accounts. "With a heavy heart."

Hernandez is a news veteran, having worked at Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Tribune Company, and even at Patch, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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"Bringing you the morning news during these uncertain years has fueled me," she wrote. "I am so grateful."

Hernandez is the latest Connecticut TV news reporter to change jobs in the past several months, joining the likes of Darren Kramer, and Teresa Dufour, among others.

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But what Hernandez has in store for the future is unknown.

Or, at least, she's not yet saying.

"What’s next?" she wrote. "Stay tuned!"


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