JETER LEAVING KZIM FOR SOUTHEAST TEACHING JOB

"Morning Meeting" co-host Cindie Jeter will leave her job at KZIM radio Friday to become a teacher at Southeast Missouri State University.

Jeter also served as assignment editor for the Cape Girardeau station's reporting team. She said her love of radio waned after her one-woman morning talk and call-in show, "Talk of Cape," was canceled in January and replaced with the two-host "Morning Meeting" news program.

"I feel very blessed because there are a lot of people who spend 30 years at a job they don't like," she said. "I've had a job for over 20 years that I dearly love: electronic journalism. And now I'm embarking on a new career I dearly love."

Jeter worked in television and radio in Los Angeles before taking a job at KZIM in September 1993. She and her husband wanted to live in a rural setting, she said.

She started teaching two Writing for Mass Media classes at Southeast in August 2000 and will teach four classes in the coming semester. The course covers writing for newspapers, television, and radio and launching advertising campaigns.

John Zimmer of Zimmer Broadcasting, which owns KZIM, said Southeast will be "much improved" with Jeter's addition. Her replacement hasn't been hired.

"We will be looking within and on the outside," Zimmer said. "We're trying to find the right fit for the community."