Amanda Hanson, a Tennessee journalist who served as the Leader of Digital Innovation for WMC-TV, has died, the Memphis station announced. She was 38.
Hanson was described by WMC-TV as “an extraordinary person” with an “innovative spirit” that propelled the station to new heights.
“Amanda, a beloved journalist, Memphian, colleague and friend, joined the Action News 5 team in 2021 and was the driving force behind the Action News 5 Digital Desk,” WMC-TV said in tribute to Hanson. “She worked tirelessly to build that coverage behind the scenes with her own bottomless well of energy and creativity.”
Hanson was a member of the news management team and “served as a close advisor on all things digital” at WMC-TV. She has also anchored for the news station.
KAIT, a news station in Arkansas that Hanson worked for from 2010 to 2015 and again from 2018 to 2021, said she “had a medical emergency earlier this week and died from complications.”
It’s not clear what the medical emergency was at this time.
Hanson had recently married her husband, Darren, according to WMC-TV.
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