As May 2023 came to a close, The E.W. Scripps Co. attracted attention for sharing with its employees details about a local news initiative designed to transform how its broadcast TV stations report and produce its newscasts on a daily basis.
With a pledge to invest nearly $10 million in its local news teams, with most of those dollars funding salaries, and the integration of Scripps News coverage into local news products, the reporters, editors, producers and anchors at Scripps’ local stations across the U.S., now under the leadership of Dean Littleton, were told by CEO Adam Symson that over the coming months they’d hear “a lot more about the ‘what, when and how’ behind the reimagination of its local news operations.
A little of the “when” is now unfolding for Scripps, as it quietly announced via an internal memo the creation of five new Regional Vice President/GM positions.
