Miami news anchors social media bikini photos prompt crackdown: Foolish nonsense

A Miami TV news executive ripped his staff for acting like social media influencers instead of journalists after an anchor’s bikini vacation posts prompted an internal crackdown on what he called “cringeworthy” online behavior.WPLG Vice President of News Bill Pohovey told staff he was fed up with what he described as “foolish nonsense” appearing on employees’ social media accounts, according to a memo obtained by industry site FTVLive.“I have emailed about this numerous times in the past, but we seem to be going in the wrong direction again,” Pohovey wrote.The memo was circulated after WPLG anchor and reporter Jenise Fernandez shared a series of vacation posts from Fiji showing her wearing a bright red bikini aboard what appeared to be a resort boat, sources told FTVLive.But Pohovey denied this, telling The Post that memo was circulated months ago.He said that the directive ” was not a response to one individual post [but rather] just a reminder of long-standing guidelines.”When asked to clarify, Pohovey told The Post: “This had nothing to do with a current employee.As I said, the memo was sent out many months ago and is not new.”One Instagram post showed Fernandez emerging from crystal-clear water in the swimsuit with the caption: “Now I know what it feels like to be on @cloud9_fiji.”Additional Instagram Stories showed Fernandez leaning against a bar in the same bikini while visiting the floating venue, while another clip captured her and two companions raising shot glasses for a toast.Fernandez, a Miami native who joined WPLG in 2014, is a six-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchors the station’s weekday 3 p.m.

and 10 p.m.newscasts.According to her station biography, she is also a former Miss Miami and was fourth runner-up in the Miss Florida pageant.The posts prompted management to remind newsroom employees that they are journalists first — not social media personalities.“Too many of our social media accounts are being ...