Longtime Scripps Reporter to Exit

WTVR (Richmond) Crime Reporter Jon Burkett announced that he will be leaving the station.

Despite his exit not being until the end of September, Burkett got emotional when he told a station podcast, “It's been a great run, but I think for my health, my peace, for my family… I want to be present."

He will be signing off on the 26th anniversary of when he started.

One station insider told FTVLive, “Bet you a nickel that Scripps told him he'd have to take a pay cut in his next contract and he decided to leave.”

We don’t know that to be a fact, but knowing Scripps, it certainly would not come as a surprise.