KCCI has promoted Natalie Cabieses to replace news director Allison Smith, who left the Des Moines station in December to take a promotion at sister station KETV in Omaha. Cabieses, who will become only the fifth news director at KCCI, has been with the station since February 2024, serving as assistant news director.

Cabieses, the fifth news director in the station’s 70-year history, has been an integral part of KCCI’s newsroom since her arrival in February 2024. President and General Manager Brian Sather said she is a gifted leader with an incredibly bright future ahead.

Natalie Cabieses has been appointed to the role of news director of Hearst Television's local station in Des Moines This article, Natalie Cabieses named news director of Hearst’s KCCI, was first published at The Desk.

Natalie Cabieses is being promoted from assistant news director to news director at KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa. Cabieses is the fifth news director in the station's 70-year history. She takes over for Allison Smith,