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Erin Heft, a KCRA morning anchor and reporter, will leave Sacramento\u2019s NBC affiliate this week for a new television newsroom in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.<\/p>\n
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Northern California will say goodbye this week to a familiar face on KCRA\u2019s morning newscast as Erin Heft leaves Sacramento\u2019s NBC affiliate for a job closer to her Texas roots.<\/p>\n
Erin Heft first joined Channel 3 as a news intern in June 2018. After a nearly three-year stint with the E.W. Scripps Co. as a reporter and fill-in anchor, she returned to the station in June 2021 as a reporter and fill-in anchor. Now, the self-proclaimed Northern California lover will head to Dallas to join what she described as a \u201clegendary newsroom,\u201d Heft announced in a Facebook post Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m filled with thrill and grief,\u201d Heft said in a Thursday interview. \u201cThrilled because I can\u2019t wait to go, but grief because it\u2019s the closure of the chapter of Northern California, and I really do just adore it here.\u201d<\/p>\n Heft arrived in Northern California in 2014 to put herself through college, working for the San Diego Padres as an on-field correspondent before eventually becoming a staff writer for SB Nation\u2019s Padres site, Gaslamp Ball. She also worked as a reporter for Golding Publications and later for SBM Management Services while pursuing her degree.<\/p>\n As she completed her bachelor\u2019s degree at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University online, Heft joined KCRA as an intern in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I got the internship, it was such a privilege,\u201d Heft said. \u201cIt was actually the first newsroom \u2014 professional working newsroom \u2014 that I ever spent any time in, and I was just in awe of the talent that was within the room.\u201d<\/p>\n A native of Texas, Heft moved to Waco less than a week after finishing her internship at KCRA, and though she enjoyed her time there, her \u201cgoal was to make it immediately back to KCRA.\u201d<\/p>\n Since returning to Sacramento in 2021, Heft has been a fixture on the station\u2019s morning team, working alongside journalists who had once been her mentors during her internship. Heft described Northern California as a \u201cwonderland of a news market, because there\u2019s a little bit of everything always happening.\u201d<\/p>\n Reflecting on her time at Channel 3, she pointed to coverage of the 2021 wildfire season and reporting on the K Street mass shooting as among the most meaningful work of her career.<\/p>\n Although she declined to identify her next employer before its official announcement, Heft said the move to the Dallas-Fort Worth market will bring her within about a two-hour drive of family while offering new opportunities for growth. Dallas-Fort Worth is the nation\u2019s fourth-largest television market.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been a privilege of a lifetime, and I will never be the same, and I am just full of gratitude,\u201d Heft said.<\/p>\n
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