Fox News Exec Revamp: Suzanne Scott Named CEO, Jay Wallace President
May 17, 2018
Fox News Exec Revamp: Suzanne Scott Named CEO, Jay Wallace President
Suzanne Scott, the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel programming boss who has been with FNC since it launched 22 years ago, has been named CEO of the two 21st Century Fox networks. The move is part of a restructuring at the top of FNC, with Jay Wallace appointed president of Fox News and executive editor.
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Jack Abernethy, who had been co-president with Wallace, shifts to full-time focus as as CEO of the expanded Fox Television Stations Group, a core part of the New Fox company that will form after 21st Century Fox’s merger with Disney is finalized. Abernethy will relocate to Los Angeles to be closer to New Fox divisions Fox Broadcasting with and Fox Sports.
Scott will report jointly to Lachlan Murdoch, the newly minted chairman and CEO of the proposed New Fox, and Rupert Murdoch, 21st Century Fox executive chairman, executive chairman of Fox News and co-chairman of New Fox.
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