Credit: Courtesy WKYC Studios
WKYC Studios has announced that Emily Mayfield, wife of Browns’ quarterback Baker Mayfield, has joined the station as a “special correspondent.” She will appear in segments this fall on Jay Crawford’s noon show, Jimmy Donovan’s 7 p.m. show and across the station’s social media channels.

“Emily’s passion for Northeast Ohio, genuine curiosity and her gift of connecting with people in the community will come to life in her stories for WKYC Studios,” said station GM Micki Byrnes in a statement provided to the media. “When Emily moved to Cleveland, she wanted to explore all that her new home had to offer. We look forward to sharing what she’s discovered.”

Content Director Adam Miller hinted at some of the areas in which Mayfield would be specially corresponding: “identifying innovative trends in the health and wellness space,” for example, and “showcasing the hottest, most interesting spots in Northeast Ohio.”

A segment posted today shows Mayfield trying pilates-inspired workouts at Callie’s Pilates in the 9 and Core CLE in Westlake.

Mayfield, per the press release, graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013 and thereafter moved to L.A., “where she began her career as a patient coordinator for a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.” She has established a “large and loyal following on Instagram sharing health and beauty information.”

It was superfluous to note, though the press release did, that Mayfield recently moved to Cleveland with her husband Baker.

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This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2019.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

8 replies on “WKYC Hiring Frenzy Now Includes Emily Mayfield, Baker’s Wife”

  2. Speaking of WKYC, what happened to their planned YouTube that was supposed to star Robin Swoboda?

  4. That’s sad, but that’s the only kind of thing that would ever get Robin to finally STFU and stop giggling.

    As for Emily, she’s just another trophy wife with no on-air talents, just hair and cheekbones, and she’ll be off the screen before her husband is. Those kind of airheads are a dime dozen and don’t usually last long.

  5. Odd that Sam (who seems to love giving bj’s to WKYC) basically just prints their press release but when 8 hires Tom Meyer (an actual journalist) he takes them to task calling Tom a dinosaur.

  6. Mike, that’s because Sam is an elitist kid straight outta Northwestern (Medill School of Journalism, whose graduates are often referred to as Medilldoes). So it naturally follows that an actual journalist who’s his fathers age would be labeled a dinosaur. It’s what they do. Consider the source and shrug it off.

  8. Showed up on-camera a couple of times in October and disappeared.
    Just another lame, stupid, forgettable publicity stunt that flopped.

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