Thursday, January 12, 2012

Stewart named content veep for Scripps

EVANSVILLE — Mizell Stewart III, who has been editor of the Evansville (IN) Courier & Press since 2007, will soon take a new job with the newspaper’s corporate parent.

Effective Jan. 23, Stewart will become vice president of content for the newspaper group
of The E.W. Scripps Co. The job is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In this job, Stewart will develop content strategy and directly oversee the creation, curation and production of news, information and entertainment for both print and digital platforms in Scripps’ 13 newspaper markets. All Scripps editors will report directly to him.

Stewart said he looks forward to “the opportunity to play a larger role in leading Scripps newsrooms into the future.”

Stewart said newsrooms face an “incredible challenge” of keeping up with the increasing number of ways people consume news — online, via smartphones, via electronic readers or in other ways.

“We have to evolve our newsrooms to be able to serve all those platforms,” he said.
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