The E.W. Scripps Company is reorganizing its Local Media division into 11 regions and eliminating 27 local market and sales leadership roles as part of a broader effort to overhaul how it operates.
Each region will be led by a regional general manager responsible for two to four markets in most cases.
Every Scripps market will keep a local news operation led by the station’s news director, so news decisions remain with journalists closest to their communities.
Scripps said the changes are meant to reflect how audiences now watch, discover and rely on news. The new regional structure follows other recent station-level shifts, including expanded 24/7 streaming news and greater use of technology, including AI and automation, to modernize production for both streaming and linear broadcasts.
“Local television is changing, and the way we operate local stations has to change with it,”
Scripps President and CEO Adam Symson said. “Through this transformation, we are rethinking outdated operating models built for a different era while creating a more technology-forward media company to sustain local journalism and bring more consistency, scale and support across our markets.”