Former CT News Anchor, Meteorologist Land New Jobs

CONNECTICUT — It did not take long for Alexa Farrell, who recently left Fox61, to announce her new job in New York City.

Farrell has joined WPIX-TV as the station’s newest member of the morning news team, covering traffic and transit, she wrote on Facebook, accompanied by a brief video.

“Still feeling the ‘pinch me’ moment of this new chapter,” Farrell wrote, adding that she’s “thrilled” to be joining PIX11, and will be on-air mornings starting at 4 a.m.

Farrell, who was at Fox61 for about six months before leaving for PIX11, has also worked at News 12 in both New York and Connecticut; WVII/WFVX in Bangor, Maine; and at WTNH-TV in New Haven.

In other new job news, meteorologist Fred Campagna, who left WTNH-TV in 2018, announced he is leaving television news altogether for a different weather-related role.

Most recently, Campagna was Atlanta First News, and he said in a video on Facebook that he is ending his 26-year television news career for a new job as the director of Forensic Meteorology with Haag Global, a Salas O’Brien Company.

“A lot of you know that I like to run, and 26 years is a nice parallel to the 26 miles of a marathon,” Campagna said. “It’s been challenging, there have been some unfamiliar turns, some tough uphills, but there have also been a lot of really nice downhills. And in the end, it’s been extremely fun, very rewarding, and I cannot thank you enough for all of your support along the way.”

Campagna is a native Bristol, Rhode Island, and in addition to New Haven-based News 8, he has also worked at WLNE in Providence and WFXT in Boston.