CINCINNATI, March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The E.W.
Scripps Company has nominated three new directors for election to
its board: the company's new chief operating officer, a
Scripps family member and an expert in
emerging media platforms.
Adam Symson was promoted from
chief digital officer to chief operating officer of Scripps in November. He is on a path to replace
Rich Boehne, who plans to retire
from his role as president and CEO later this year. Boehne will
remain as chairman of the board.
Symson, 42, has spent the balance of his career in radio,
television and digital media. He joined Scripps in 2002 with the company's television
station in Phoenix, KNXV. At
Scripps, he led the television
division's news strategy and operations, oversaw content and
marketing for Scripps' interactive
media division, and launched and ran Scripps' consolidated digital operations beginning
in 2011.
The board also has recommended that R.
Michael (Mike) Scagliotti, 45, join the board, replacing the
retiring Mary McCabe Peirce.
Scagliotti is a great-great grandson of the founder and son of
former board chair Nackey
Scagliotti.
A private investor and artist, Scagliotti received a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in creative writing from Emerson
College in Boston and a Master of Fine Art from Savannah College of Art and Design. He is secretary
of the Scripps Family Council and a member of the board of trustees
of the Scripps Howard Foundation.
The company announced in January that Peirce, 68, a
great-granddaughter of the company's founder, would step down from
the board when her terms expires in May. She has served as a
director since 2008.
The third board nominee is Peter B.
Thompson, 48, chief operating officer for TiVo and a veteran
emerging media executive. Before TiVo, Thompson served as vice
president of strategic partnerships for the home audio company
Sonos Inc. and before that as senior vice president of the TV and
Media division for telecommunications technology firm Ericsson
Corp. He joined Ericsson through its acquisition of Mediaroom from
Microsoft, where he had run that business. At Microsoft, Thompson
also had served as general manager for both Microsoft Surface and
Xbox Live. He received a Master of Business Administration from the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University and a Bachelor of International Economics from
the University of California at Los
Angeles.
At the May 2 Scripps shareholder annual meeting, Symson,
Scagliotti and Thompson will stand for election by Scripps family members as holders of the common
voting shares. With the addition of two board members, the
Scripps family would elect eight of the
company's 11 directors.
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) serves audiences and
businesses through a growing portfolio of television, radio and
digital media brands. Scripps is one of
the nation's largest independent TV station owners, with 33
television stations in 24 markets and a reach of nearly one in five
U.S. households. It also owns 34 radio stations in eight markets.
Scripps also runs an expanding
collection of local and national digital journalism and information
businesses, including multi-platform satire and humor brand
Cracked, podcast industry leader Midroll Media and over-the-top
video news service Newsy. Scripps also
produces television shows including "The List" and "The Now," runs
an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and serves as the longtime
steward of the nation's largest, most successful and
longest-running educational program, the Scripps National Spelling
Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held
for decades to the motto, "Give light and the people will find
their own way."
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