Media Moves

FOX News is moving ahead with a new media expansion effort that includes a licensing agreement with the "Ruthless" podcast which will be aligned with the division’s existing roster of on-demand audio offerings. This will see FOX News Digital's President and Editor-in-Chief add New Media to his role.

Graduates from the University of Maryland will receive hands-on investigative reporting experience at major media outlets as Fellows within the Scripps Howard Foundation-funded offering. The nonprofit newsrooms hosting the fellows during the program include NPR and The Maine Monitor. The fellowships, which are awarded biannually, are given to graduates of the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University.

Scholarship recipients for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks program, presented by RAB and Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio, Inc. (MIW), have been selected.

Triple Helix's newest executive has a career spanning technical operations, sales, and executive management, most recently serving as VP of Operations at DJB Radio Software. He is also well-known in the industry through his roles with the Central Canada Broadcast Engineers and Society of Broadcast Engineers.

She succeeded Walt "Baby" Love as Urban Editor of former radio industry trade publication Radio & Records and in the years since that role has excelled as one of the leading R&B and Hip-Hop programming executives in the business. Now, Kashon Powell is taking a key role for iHeartMedia in the nation's No. 3 market.

Dick Whitworth, a 50-year veteran of Christian-focused faith-based media, is retiring. This opened up an opportunity for Pillar Media, operator of "STAR"-branded Christian Adult Contemporary radio stations in three U.S. markets, to select a new COO. It went with a former iHeartMedia Region President.

A digital multicast network purveyor that recently named Otto Padrón as its President and COO has appointed a VP of Digital Strategy and Revenue Ops. In this role, an ex-Univision Interactive Media leader will "architect, lead, build and execute Get After It Media's digital growth and revenue strategy.

The Mission Broadcasting-owned home of The CW Network in New York that is run by cozy shared services partner Nexstar Media Group has named its next News Director. He begins his new duties on July 24.

Titletown has a new Station Manager for a pair of Sinclair Inc.-owned broadcast TV stations, and he's been on the job since Monday. That said, this individual has been with the stations for nearly a decade.

There's a new head of Gray Media's full-power NBC affiliate serving Parkersburg, W. Va., and the two low-power TV station siblings that bring FOX and CBS programming to this small West Virginia market.

The CBS affiliate serving the Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisc., market will have a new General Manager. She'll take on the role starting July 21.

He joined the broadcast ministry in 1996 after building a career in New York’s cable and sports television industries and was promoted to the COO role in 2009. Since 2013 Eternal Word Television Network's President, too, he's retiring from the global Catholic media organization.

In 1978, he first took a job in Radio as an on-air personality, with stations in Madison, Wisc., and in Milwaukee. By 1997, he played a pivotal role in the formation of what would eventually become iHeartMedia's Wisconsin holdings. Now this lifelong radio industry veteran is concluding a nearly five-decade career.

It is being described as "a strategic move" that further strengthens the nationally recognized law firm's Space & Satellite capabilities, Pillsbury is welcoming a new partner within the Communications practice of its National Capitol office.

A former member of the air staff at a 100kw Country FM licensed to Jacksboro, Tex., and serving Tarrant County, has been sentenced to serve six years in prison after it was found he violated the terms of his probation.