Former WHEC reporter, anchor and news director Warren Doremus has died. According to News10NBC, Doremus died Monday afternoon at the age of 91. He worked at WHEC for 45 years.
The D&C reports that Doremus died due to complications stemming from a fall that happened early last week.
Doremus covered the 1964 riots in Rochester and led the WHEC newsroom in the 1970s and 80s.
He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and fought in France during World War II.
Doremus last appeared on WHEC in 2016 to bid farewell to anchor Janet Lomax, when she retired actually had originally hired Lomax in 1980.
Doremus hired Lomax back in 1980, flying to Louisville to interview her. As they sat together at a restaurant, Lomax remembers Doremus didn't look like your typical news manager.
“This man seated across from me had on this, was impeccably dressed with a white silk scarf and a black, rich looking coat, and I remembered sitting there and thinking, this guy does not look like a news director, what is WHEC ?“
And she also told WXXI News that she and Doremus were on the same wavelength in many ways when it came to their approach to news.
“He was a newsman’s newsman, old school, which I was old school, but just a good news person, he knew a good story and he knew how to tell a good story and he shared his wisdom with the rest of us in the newsroom.”
Lomax says there was a get together last April in Rochester of some current and former WHEC staffers and Doremus was there.
