Chip Mahaney

Chip Mahaney has more than 40 years’ experience in news, primarily in television and digital, with more than 30 of those years in leadership positions at local and corporate levels. Chip is currently Emerging Talent Leader for The E. W. Scripps Company. His job and his joy are to save journalism and to grow Scripps by mentoring, coaching, recruiting, and hiring the next generation of journalists and media professionals.

In Chip’s 15 years at Scripps, he has served in multiple roles at the corporate headquarters and as News Director at Scripps’ hometown flagship, WCPO. Before coming to Scripps, Chip worked for local media organizations in the Fox Television, Raycom, Gannett and Belo groups.

Over many years, Chip has served the journalism industry by teaching for organizations like Poynter, the Carole Kneeland Project, and Radio Television Digital News Association. He was a member of the RTNDA board for more than a decade. He judges industry awards including Edward R. Murrow Awards and Emmys. Chip is also finishing a master’s in liberal studies, with a concentration in journalism education, at Kent State University.

Chip lives in Cincinnati and works out of Scripps’ home headquarters. He is married with two grown kids. There are only a few things in life he loves more than a 5am run.