Former television anchor Keith Whitney has been named to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s leadership team.
Whitney who has been a decades-long fixture on local Atlanta TV newscasts, and has won multiple awards for his work will now be the city’s new director of communications.
The announcement came the morning of June 22.
“I am truly excited that Keith has agreed to serve our administration,” Bottoms said. “Over the past 25 years, he has built a reputation as one of Atlanta’s most highly regarded and trustworthy reporters and he will bring that same level of integrity to the city.”
Whitney was most recently on air as part of the news team at CBS46 where he served as an anchor and reporter. In 2016 he took a buyout from 11Alive before landing at the rival station. Prior to that, he was a lead reporter, anchor and managing editor at the station for 23 years.
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