ST. LOUIS – Long-time KTVI and KPLR news director Audrey Prywitch is retiring this spring.
Kurt Krueger, vice president and general manager of KTVI and KPLR, informed the newsroom and station staff that Prywitch, who has served as news director since 2008, would retire at the end of May.
“After a distinguished career serving the St. Louis community, she will be missed,” Krueger said. “We wish her much happiness in her retirement.”
Audrey came to KTVI from KMOV (CBS) in 2001 as assistant news director and never looked back. In 2008, she was promoted to news director. While here, she was honored with six Regional Emmy Awards for news coverage.
Under her leadership, she guided the newsroom through many major events, including the merging of KTVI and KPLR newsrooms and relocating KTVI to its current offices in Maryland Heights from Hampton Avenue. Prywitch oversaw the station’s coverage of major local and national news events like the Ferguson protests, the COVID pandemic, four presidential elections, the St. Louis Blues first-ever Stanley Cup win, and two St. Louis Cardinals World Series.
She has worked earnestly to make the newsroom and station staffing reflective of our diverse community.
“It has been a pleasure and honor to lead this newsroom for the past 16 years. So much has happened during that time,” Prywitch said.
Audrey is looking forward to spending more time traveling with her husband, Rick, to Los Angeles to visit her children and their families. And here in Saint Louis, they await the arrival of their fourth grandchild.
