Sean McGarvy has been named to the brand new function of senior director of digital information and content material technique for The E.W. Scripps Firm.
McGarvy will develop and execute the strategic imaginative and prescient for information content material throughout all Scripps Information Group digital platforms, together with Scripps Information and Scripps’ native stations.
“Sean is a trusted information chief who understands our newsrooms and our imaginative and prescient to ship distinctive journalism on each platform,” mentioned Dean Littleton, Scripps’ govt vice chairman of media broadcast operations. “This new function acknowledges the crucial significance of digital and streaming to fulfill a rising variety of customers the place they’re. Sean has the expertise, ardour and imaginative and prescient to guide a cohesive, consumer-centric strategy to our digital information technique.”
He’s been the Scripps’ senior director of native information technique since April 2020. He additionally companions with Scripps Information, connecting Scripps’ 60+ native stations with a nationwide footprint.
Earlier than becoming a member of Scripps, McGarvy was the information director at Scripps’ Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS and the assistant information director at KMGH, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Denver.