Julie has worked at KTVU for 25 years and has covered a wide range of stories and events over the past quarter century here in the Bay Area including: The September 11th attacks in . The announcement came the day before Joe Biden was sworn in as president. Frank Somerville in an undated photo. Bay Area news viewers from the 1990s and early 2000s have lost a longtime favorite, as former anchor Leslie Griffiths family announced she passed away at her home in Mexico on Wednesday. Theres no interest in contradicting the White House. Copyright 2023 The MonthlyAll rights reserved. She also mailed a glossy photo of herself getting readyblond spikes pulled through a frosting cap, eyebrows in mid-wax and makeup half done. When she wasnt getting the roles she had hoped for in Hollywood, Kendall did what any self-starter would do: She wrote her own screenplay and made herself the star. Leslie Griffith. Photo courtesy of KTVU / Photo courtesy of KTVU. A cement truck overturned in Sunnyvale early Tuesday morning causing a major backup on northbound 101 in Sunnyvale. But I always dreamed of someday becoming an actress, Kendall says. It is, without a doubt, one of the best scripts I have ever read and I am inundated with scripts every day, Bolt said in a press release. Under an enclosed tent, elephants can disperse moisture from their trunks that may be breathed by humans. Johnny Depp was surprise difficult on set of comeback film, reports say, Coronation organizers wonder if Prince Harry will be a no-show, report says, Summer movies 2023: 21 reasons you should be eager to return to theaters, Tucker Carlson: How early rejection by hippie San Francisco mom made him shameless. Steve Goard made the announcement in a video posted to social media last week. Courtney Adelman, former Fox 44 Burlington. Richmond Estate Planning Attorney, Sara Diamond answers questions about wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance health care directives. He would still like to return to broadcast journalism, though he does not believe he will return to KTVU. It will now be seen in Thailand, Japan and a lot of other countries, Kendall says. Griffith says this kind of story might not air todayfirst because many TV news reporters nowadays dont know how to get a coroners report (or make a Freedom of Information Act request, for that matter), because news directors might not have the guts to air stories that could inspire litigation or offend advertisers and because those news directors dont have enough confidence in their reporters unless there is a criminal charge already filed. It starts with a question. Laura Anthony retired from Bay Area television news after more than 30 years in the industry. Berkeley, was married to KTVU reporter Faith Fancher who died in 2005 from breast cancer. Help sustain the local news you depend on. It came over us slowly. Griffith says yes, shes gotten the message, loud and clear. Griffith landed one of her first journalism jobs in the early 1980s in Grand Junction, Colo., at age 23. As to Griffiths charges that theres a significant shift in corporate influence in broadcast, Drummond says that influence has always been present and that the ironclad separation between advertising and editorial departments that newspapers tend to keep has rarely existed in broadcast.