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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska television reporter quit her job on live TV after revealing she owns a medical marijuana business and intends to press for legalization of recreational pot in Alaska.
After reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club on Sunday night's broadcast, KTVA's Charlo Greene identified herself as the business's owner. She then used an expletive to quit her job and walked off-camera.
In a statement on KTVA's website, news director Bert Rudman apologized for Greene's "inappropriate language" and said she was terminated.
Greene is the professional name used by Charlene Egbe. She told The Associated Press that she knew about a month ago that she would be leaving the way she did. She said no one else at the station knew anything about it.
Alaska voters will decide in the November whether to join Washington and Colorado in decriminalizing pot.
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