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One of the journalists she inspired was TV host Shaun Robinson. Ramsey handled weekend and morning broadcasts and filled in for Tom Skilling, spending 30 years at the station before retiring in 2017. Dee, 85, was a local television star with 43. Former WGN weatherman Jim Ramsey, whose signature baritone voice and kindly demeanor were staples of the network’s news broadcasts for three decades, has died at age 69, the network announced Friday. “She loved fearlessly, she mentored not just me but countless interns,” Baftiri said. WGN-TV is saddened following the death of our former broadcaster and community relations director Merri Dee. She advised aspiring young journalists, routinely reviewed scripts and offered feedback in a way “no other anchor did,” said Vicky Baftiri, one of Payne’s longtime producers.

Payne was instrumental in helping many Black reporters and producers in their own careers. “You looked at Alison, you thought here’s a young journalist who has the world before her, and one could only speculate where that incredible career was going to go.”

At WGN-TV, where Salerno worked previously, morning anchor Larry Potash described Salerno as 'an. “Allison was young, vibrant, sharp,” meteorologist Tom Skilling said in a WGN video tribute. Allison Payne is an American anchorwoman, journalist. After spending 11 years at WGN-TV as an anchor and reporter, he joined the CBS station in 2004.
