News Summary:
The E.W. Scripps Company on August 27, 2026, appointed Jen Carfley as head of small and medium business growth and direct response advertising, a newly created position overseeing the company’s strategy to connect advertisers with its video inventory across local, national linear, and connected TV platforms. Previously, on August 26, Charter sued Scripps, claiming the broadcaster is attempting to avoid extending its carriage rights to Cox systems that Charter recently acquired. Earlier, on August 21, KRIS 6 News, a Coastal Bend NBC affiliate, began implementing an AI-automated landscape and multimedia journalist model following recent layoffs that impacted over a dozen employees. This followed the August 20 transition at WMAR-2, Maryland’s oldest news station, which shifted to an anchorless broadcast model relying more heavily on artificial intelligence and automation, prompting criticism as its final anchors bid farewell. Also on August 20, the digitally distributed Scripps News launched an initiative to strengthen journalist-consumer relationships, offering viewers more direct access to reporters and a clearer method to share questions, concerns, and story ideas.
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