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. His job and his joy are to save journalism by mentoring, coaching, recruiting, and hiring the next generation of journalists and media professionals.

Chip is Media Executive-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He teaches broadcast and sports journalism at his alma mater.

Before SMU, Chip worked 17 years at Scripps, serving in multiple roles at the corporate headquarters and as News Director at Scripps’ hometown flagship, WCPO. Before 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 RTDNA, Poynter, and the Carole Kneeland Project. He was a member of the RTNDA board for more than a decade. He judges industry awards including Edward R. Murrow Awards and Emmys, as well as those for Student Television News, a competition organization for high school video journalists.

Chip and his wife Susan live in Dallas. He is married with two grown kids. There are only a few things in life he loves more than a 5am run.