The company could be under new ownership in a year, but that’s not stopping a 12-year CNN veteran from joining TEGNA as its new VP of Content, overseeing its television stations in the northeast and leading morning news strategy across the company’s 64 stations.
Taking the role is Javi Morgado, who formally shared his position via social media hours after the TEGNA sale to Nexstar Media Group was announced.
On Instagram, Morgado said he is “truly grateful to our CEO Mike Steib and Adrienne Roark for tapping me to join their leadership team. I am overjoyed to partner with my fellow VPs Carol Fowler, Julie Wolfe, Chris Peña and Michael Valentine to shape the future of local news.”
Roark is TEGNA’s Chief Content Officer and was previously with CBS.
For Morgado, his arrival at TEGNA comes after serving as Executive Producer for CNN’s “At This Hour,” and before that as EP for its “New Day” morning show.
Before joining CNN in December 2011, he spent 18 months as VP of Business Development and Communications for Latina magazine. Prior to that, Morgada spent about 11 years at NBCUniversal, exiting as supervising producer for TODAY.
A University of Miami graduate, he first entered the TV industry as an associate producer for WPLG-10 in Miami under Post-Newsweek Stations ownership, in December 1995. He’s also been an assignment editor for WTVJ-TV in Miami.
