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The E.W. Scripps Co. has tapped two veteran journalists to join the Scripps News leadership team. The announcement comes one month ahead of the demise of Newsy, which will be rebranded as part of a consolidation move combining Scripps' Local Media national desk, formerly in Omaha, with its D.C. News Bureau.

"She's as experienced as she is talented," says EVP of Communications Joe Benarroch, and has more than 20 years of ad tech, agency leadership and executive communications under her belt. And, she's inbound from Facebook parent Meta. Introducing the new VP of International Communications on NBCUniversal's Advertising and Partnerships Communications Team.

There's a new Executive Vice President of Current Programs for both CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios. It's a new role, in which this individual will oversee current primetime and daytime programming on the network and for the studio.

Until late 2015, it owned radio and television stations. Today, Schurz is focused on regional broadband companies, through which cable TV services are offered. Now, it has appointed a new President/CEO, effective Feb. 1, 2023. He's replacing Todd Schurz, who has been in the role for 15 years.

He is a two-time Emmy Award winner in the Outstanding Technical Team Remote category, for his work on the 1998 Summer X Games and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Now, he's rising to the role of co-Regional Director for Engineering at Hearst Television as Joe Balkan is retiring.

He has been with Audacy Corp.'s Sacramento radio stations since August. Now, just months later, he's rising to the role of Operations Manager while retaining his Brand Manager role for the cluster's Active Rock and Classic Rock FMs.

Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) elected four media and technology executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms that begin in January 2023.

In February 2021, the company successfully lured a three-year VP of Content Strategy for NBC Sports Washington to serve as its corporate-level VP of Sports. He would later rise to SVP/Sports. Now, Matthew Volk is preparing to exit Audacy Corp.

The former GM of WSTB Television and Radio in South Bend, Ind., has been elected to the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) Board of Directors.

Since its founding in Boston in 1951, this public broadcasting institution has had a male leader. That will soon change, as a woman who began her career as a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter has been named as the next President/CEO of GBH.

NABLF board member and broadcast ambassador Tamron Hall kicked off the campaign with a video message encouraging broadcasters to donate to The Future Leaders Fund this holiday season.

The Allen Media Group (AMG) digital platform Local Now, a free-streaming service for local news and entertainment, is firing up a new offering dedicated to a comedian and actor known for roles on CBS's "The Ghost Whisperer" and his portrayal as Randy Meeks in the original "Scream" films of the 1990s.

This individual, who spent many years at Discovery and, before that, at DirecTV, will take the role of President. He starts his new role on November 30.

Back as a first-time event, with virtual gatherings seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alliance for Women in Media (AWM)-hosted Gracies Leadership Awards luncheon saw accolades and honors bestowed upon eight female notables from across the media industry.

Audacy Corp. has selected an individual who will be placed in a role that gives her leadership of the team members responsible for the technology platforms for Audacy’s revenue organization, "ensuring that roadmaps and requirements are prioritized for vendors and IT ad tech engineers, aligned with ad product strategy and revenue goals, and optimized to meet business operational needs."