Levon Putney is a professional news reporter. Hailing from Third Ward in Houston, Texas, he graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism, and starting in the late 90s working at Zimmer Radio Group in Columbia (1997-98) and WENY radio/TV in Elmira, NY (1999-2000), before reporting for WTAM 1100 in Cleveland (2000-06) and reporting and anchoring at WCBS 880 in New York City from 2006 until the owners pulled the plug on the historic station in August 2024. That sudden bout of unemployment left Levon with time to create Reel Pod (News) Cast, which launched January 2025