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Texas TV newsrooms are seeing more changes this month, with a longtime Central Texas anchor signing off and an El Paso journalist returning home to take over a prominent evening anchor desk.
After nearly a decade at KCEN in Temple, Texas Today anchor Jasmin Caldwell bid farewell to the Central Texas station on Aug. 11.
"For me, journalism has never just been about being on television," Caldwell wrote in a farewell message.
Caldwell said the job was about connecting with the communities she covered, from Waco and Temple to Belton and Killeen.
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While she reported on major national stories and the region's military community, she said some of her most meaningful moments came outside the newsroom, when viewers invited her to birthday parties, family reunions and community celebrations or stopped her at the grocery store.
"I’ve always believed journalism requires more than a camera and a microphone," Caldwell wrote. "It requires a connection to the community you serve."
Before becoming a morning anchor , Caldwell worked as KCEN's weekend evening anchor and a weekday reporter. She joined the station in 2017 after previously reporting for WCAV in Charlottesville, Va.
The Omaha, Neb., native graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in broadcast journalism. In 2022, Caldwell made national history as part of what KCEN described as the nation's first all-Black, all-women newscast.
Caldwell has not revealed what's next, but she confirmed she isn't leaving Central Texas .
More than 500 miles west, Mauricio Casillas is returning to the station where his television career began.
Casillas announced he is rejoining KVIA ABC-7 El Paso and will begin anchoring the station's evening newscasts at the end of September. He will join Marcel Clarke as co-anchor of the weekday 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, filling the seat left by Paul Cicala, who departed in February.
Casillas returns to El Paso after spending four years as a reporter and anchor at NBC4 Washington.
"El Paso is home. There is no place like anywhere else. The opportunity to come back to my community and tell stories was one I couldn't pass up," Casillas said in a news release .
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The El Paso native said the move also brings him back to the city where he met his wife, where their families live and where they want to raise their son.
"I can't wait to help tell the story of El Paso, Las Cruces and Juárez," Casillas said. "¡Nos vemos pronto!"
Casillas began his television career at KVIA in 2016 as the station's first morning traffic reporter before moving into reporting and anchoring. During his six years at ABC-7, he anchored Good Morning El Paso , ABC-7 at 4 and ABC-7 at 10 and eventually became anchor and executive producer of Good Morning El Paso .
Casillas graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in mass communications.
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