{"id":267071,"date":"2026-06-15T05:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267071\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:28","slug":"news-12-westchester-nyc-news-anchor-bill-ritter-reveals-alzheimers-diagnosis-steps-down-from-on-air-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267071\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Nyc News Anchor Bill Ritter Reveals Alzheimers Diagnosis Steps Down From On Air Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Veteran news anchor Bill Ritter announced that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease while on the air on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old journalist stated that he had been diagnosed with &#8220;early-stage&#8221; Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and that he has been undergoing treatments prescribed to him by doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, who anchored the WABC desk for decades, says that he wants to continue to &#8220;dig deeper&#8221; into the rise of Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran news anchor Bill Ritter announced that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease while on the air on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-267071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}