Bernard T. Gugar has stepped down from his position as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at FOX News Media.
Who is taking his former GC duties is now known.
Katherine Moran Meeks has been named General Counsel of the FOX unit, reporting to CEO Suzanne Scott. She takes on her new role August 19.
Meeks will report directly to Scott, with further reporting responsibilities to Fox Corporation’s Chief Legal and Policy Officer, Adam Ciongoli.
Most recently, Meeks was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she practiced in the firm’s Litigation Department as well as the Appellate and Constitutional Law and Labor and Employment groups. In private practice, she has represented journalists and media companies in libel and other speech-based tort cases, from discovery through dispositive motions, trial, and appeal. Meeks has also presented oral argument in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and in federal district courts.
Prior to her stint at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, she was an associate at Williams & Connolly in the firm’s Media and First Amendment practice group and earlier clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Meeks began her career as a journalist, starting as a reporter for The Day in New London, Connecticut. In 2005 she moved to New Orleans to join The Times-Picayune in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which later won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the devastating Category 5 storm. She covered various beats there including local politics and government, real estate and health care and was promoted to Deputy Business Editor before leaving to embark on a law career.
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