Pictured is Cleveland Channel 5 News new evening and nightly news anchor Courtney Gousman
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CLEVELANDURBANEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, OHIO— Cleveland Channel 5 news has named its replacement for anchorwoman and reporter Danita Harris, who is Black and was reassigned from anchoring the evening and nightly news to anchor Good Morning Cleveland in March, station officials announcing this week that Courtney Gousman who is also Black, will anchor the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts in place of Harris.
Gousman’s first day will be Sept 8 and she will join Frank Wiley and meteorologist Mark Johnson on the 5 p.m. newscast.
Anchor Rob Powers will be her co-anchor at 6 and 11 p.m.
“Courtney will be an outstanding addition to our team,” said Steve Weinstein, VP and General Manager at News 5 in a statement.
Gousman is an Emmy-nominated journalist who joined the WGN/ CLTV family in July of 2014 and was was a former CLTV intern.
Prior to working at WGN/CLTV, Courtney worked for WBBM-TV in her native town of Chicago as a reporter and earned the 2014 Illinois Associated Press Award.
She previously served as the sole Midday Anchor for CLTV News, delivering live coverage of breaking events happening in Chicago and and around the world, throughout the day.
Weinstein also praised Harris as a stellar anchorwoman and reporter upon her being reassigned earlier this year.
“Our viewers have had a relationship with Danita that runs 20-plus years, and her community roots and community service run deep,” said Weinstein. “She’s not only a terrific anchor and award-winning journalist but a strong community leader and advocate as well. We’re excited that our morning viewers can start their day with Danita, Katie, and Trent.”
In response to her new assignment in March, Harris, married to a Black preacher and mother to a four-year-old, said at the time that she could not "wait to rise and shine with Northeast Ohioans at a new time.”
Cleveland activists were watching to see whether another Black woman would replace Danita Harris as evening and nightly anchor given that Cleveland is a largely Black major American city and most of the anchors and reporters at local mainstream media news stations in the city are White.
"We look forward to watching Danita Harris on the morning news and are watching to see who will replace this Black woman as evening and nightly news anchor at Channel 5 in Cleveland," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black woman and former public school biology teacher who leads Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland and International Women's Day March Cleveland, when Harris was reassigned as a morning news anchor. "And we call for more Black female anchors at mainstream television stations that serve Cleveland, a largely Black major American city."
Harris co-anchored Good Morning Cleveland from 2000-2006 before she joined the 6 pm forecast with Ted Henry, also at News 5.
She later anchored the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. News 5 newscasts and after 15 years as a daily newscaster and some twenty years with TV she joined co-anchor Katie Ussin and Power of 5 Meteorologist Trent Magill as co-anchor of the morning news at the station.
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