Mayor’s girlfriend is placed on leave

From LATimes.com:

Telemundo took the action while it investigates whether anchor Mirthala Salinas breached journalistic ethics by having a relationship with Antonio Villaraigosa.

…Salinas was missing from her anchor chair on the 6 p.m. newscast the last two nights, but Telemundo officials would not say why. One Telemundo source familiar with the situation said station executives had not spoken to her because she had taken a couple of days off.

A source affiliated with Telemundo said that news executives were upset with Salinas for using an outside public relations representative and issuing a statement Tuesday about her relationship with the mayor without first running it by her bosses. One producer found out about her statement when it was reported on CNN, the source said.