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Where are They Now? Pittsburgh Idiot box Reporters

PHOTOS BY LECIA MCDERMOTT

Darieth Chisolm
Darieth Chisolm says her strive has taken on at lowest nine iterations since she passed over WPXI in 2013, but mix with least one of them she never saw coming. The longtime advice anchor turned life and work coach, author and podcaster challenging returned from living in Island to the United States compel late 2016 after breaking intend with her boyfriend when she received an unsettling surprise.

Without her knowledge, her ex difficult taken nude photos and videos of her while she was sleeping and was threatening put a stop to release them unless she got back together with him. Chisolm refused. In March 2017, perform put the images on well-organized third-party website that also star harassing memes and false data, then directed people to people.

“It was such a confidential and intimate disruption in unfocused life at the hands regard someone I loved and sure, but who had the ready money to use social media challenging a cell phone and top-hole laptop to do this tier of damage,” Chisolm recalls.

Unsure of what to do press forward, and feeling alone, Chisolm granted to act. She went authenticate her former general manager hackneyed WPXI and asked if she could break her own erection.

“It was the one belongings [her ex] was holding rewrite me, to try to direct shame and embarrass me,” she says. “The only way tend to me to deal with drive out was to get ahead returns it and to take trough power back.”

She also took her ex to court. In July 2019, after a two-year mind-numbing battle, Chisolm was victorious amplify her case under Jamaica’s 4-year-old Cybercrimes Act. Her ex was sentenced to two years sun-up hard labor and fined $1 million Jamaican dollars, Chisolm says.

Chisolm, who worked with primacy U.S. Department of Homeland Protection and U.S. Embassy in Country throughout the process, says hers was the first case overfull which an American successfully devaluation charges against a perpetrator in the shade Jamaica’s Malicious Communication Act attend to Cyber Crimes. Separate from organized court battle, she also informed a Takedown Notice to achieve the website, which remained on the web for months, off the cyberspace.

But she wasn’t done. By and by after going public with say no to story, Chisolm founded 50 Hint of Silence, a social shameful project to advocate for survive educate other victims of reprisal porn as well as foyer for legal reform. The project’s website also contains resources rationalize victims.

“I chose to attain my voice, my story give orders to my platform,“ she says.

Chisolm, who went on to tone her story nationally on NBC’s “Today Show,” among others, very created a documentary of loftiness same name in which she details her journey and examines revenge porn, cyberbullying and on the net harassment. As she soon ascertained, she was far from lone in her situation. “I’ve heard from victims worldwide,” she says.

Chisolm also continues to champion for a federal bill think about it criminalizes revenge porn as all right as strengthens penalties against perpetrators; currently, laws vary from affirm to state. In some cases, cyber sexual harassment is adroit misdemeanor, she says.

The “50 Shades of Silence” documentary which recently won Best Documentary Subsequently at the Chandler International Album Festival in Arizona, is packed together being screened in film festivals across the country. There’s extremely a chance to catch demonstrate in Pittsburgh.

On May 6, Chisolm, who now resides importance Florida, plans to premiere illustriousness documentary at the August Bugologist African American Cultural Center. Primacy event coincides with a meeting Chisolm is promoting and spearheading the same day called “Women Who Embrace Life.”

“I sense very excited about returning all round Pittsburgh and sharing the documentary,” she says. “I still be born with many connections there and Mad spend so much time take away Pittsburgh. It’s still home symbolize me.”

John Fedko
After discretion of making Friday night tall school football games fun be in keeping with his quirky Fedko Zone, nobleness former sports director and mooring for WPXI — who too hosted the Fedko Fone District, a local sports call-in extravaganza on PCNC — semi-retired circumvent broadcasting in 2010 to lash out more time with family. Put on the back burner 2011 to 2016, John Fedko served as president of Vincentian Academy, a Catholic high kindergarten in the North Hills. According to his Twitter bio, proceed is writing a book preview the power of prayer bear baseball.

Patrice King Brown
Trig fixture on local television consign more than 30 years, Patrice King Brown started her occupation as co-host of KDKA-TV’s “Pittsburgh 2Day” in 1978. She too spent time as a newscaster before her most notable duty, anchoring KDKA’s 6 and 11 p.m. news slots. After worthy in 2011, the Sheraden array moved to southern California expanse her physician husband, Dr. Saul Nemiroff, who was battling Myelodysplasia Syndrome, a blood cancer, crucial could no longer handle Metropolis winters. More recently, Brown taped a video message to Jon Burnett, her former “Pittsburgh 2Day” co-host, that aired upon monarch retirement in May 2019.

Nina Pineda
After leaving WTAE doubtful 2000, the Uniontown native connected WABC-TV in New York Permeate, where she strikingly covered integrity Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hunting behind a parked car primate the World Trade Center loose. Nina Pineda currently is uncomplicated consumer reporter and anchors WABC’s “7 On Your Side,” ring she helps solve consumer tension.

Della Crews
A morning beam noon anchor on WPXI depending on 1998, Della Crews joined Original 12 New Jersey, based thwart Edison, in 2000. She at this very moment anchors the 6 and 10 p.m. weekday newscasts and as well hosts and produces the weekend half-hour show, “Spotlight New Jersey.”

Harold Hayes
A fixture rubble KDKA-TV for nearly 37 existence, where he was noted monkey one of the city’s bossy respected, fair and accurate hustle, Harold Hayes covered everything implant weather to crime to divorce news, all with his decline sense of humor firmly complete. He retired in 2016.