In 2018, Eastright was named CEO at Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg affiliate company. His career at Bloomberg began more than 25 years earlier, when he was a college intern. Eastright received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Amherst College.

Bloomberg Industry Group employs more than 1,300 people, about 1,200 of whom work in Virginia. The Bloomberg footprint provides proprietary legal, tax, regulatory and business data and news across multiple industries through its Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax & Accounting and Bloomberg Government services.

Over the past year, Bloomberg’s law, tax and government verticals launched new AI-powered features, including a contract analysis search tool and chat-based research tools that allow users to better search and summarize legal documents.

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Steib succeeded David Lougee, who retired in August 2024, as president and CEO, as well as a board member, of the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations.

Steib, a University of Pennsylvania alumnus, came to Tegna after serving as CEO for Artsy, an online art marketplace. He’d previously served as president and CEO of XO Group (now The Knot Worldwide). Before that, he was CEO for vente-privée USA, which was the U.S. arm of French flash-sale ecommerce company Veepee.

Formed in 2015 when Gannett Co. spun off its broadcasting and digital business, Tegna has roughly 5,900 employees. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, it reaches approximately 39% of all television households nationwide. The Fortune 1000 company also owns multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest.

In February, Tegna eliminated its national Verify fact-checking team, laying off about 20 journalists and producers.

The company has announced several C-suite changes over the past year, with new chief content, experience and legal officers. Additionally, Tegna expanded Chief Growth Officer Tom Cox’s role, and Chief Operating Officer Lynn Beall is leaving in mid-2025.

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After 24 years as an advertising executive with Tribune Publishing‘s The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, Till became the first female publisher in the 175-year history of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2022. She also serves as regional vice president of sales for the newspaper’s parent company, Lee Enterprises. Till joined Lee Enterprises in 2020 as vice president of sales for the Richmond Times- Dispatch and Lee’s Virginia markets.

Till serves as a mentor for the Women’s Initiative Network at her alma mater, Old Dominion University, whose alumni association named her a Distinguished Alumni Honoree in 2022. The mother of five also chairs the Old Dominion Athletic Foundation and is a board member for the United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg, and Virginia Arts Festival. Till was the keynote speaker for ODU’s December 2024 commencement.

In the spring, the Richmond Times-Dispatch moved from its downtown Richmond location, where it had operated since 1923, to its printing plant in Hanover County.

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The longest-serving president and CEO in PBS’ 56-year history, Kerger has served as the public broadcaster’s leader since 2006, and in 2024, PBS’ board extended her contract five more years. She has grown it from traditional TV broadcasting to multiplatform digital media, with 330-plus member stations.

Before joining PBS, Kerger was chief operating officer for WNET parent Educational Broadcasting Corp. Before that, the University of Baltimore alumna was the Metropolitan Opera’s principal gifts director.

Kerger has received the Giants of Broadcasting and Electronic Arts Award as well as the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site’s Advancing American Democracy Award.

She’s a board member of the Dana Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, where she formerly served as chair.

This year, despite Kerger’s efforts to rally support for federal funding of public media, President Donald Trump signed into law in July a bill that clawed back $1.1 billion in previously allocated funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private entity that funds PBS, NPR and member stations. As a result, CPB announced Aug. 1 it would cease operations in early 2026.

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Swain leads VPM, a network of television, radio and digital media outlets across Central Virginia and Shenandoah Valley that reaches nearly 2 million people. The foundation manages its endowment.

Before joining VPM in 2019, Swain spent nearly a decade as senior vice president of strategy and operations at the Arlington- based Public Broadcasting Service. With more than 20 years of media experience, Swain has developed content, digital products and social media strategies for PBS, CNN, FOX Sports, U.S. News & World Report and other recognizable brands.

A University of Virginia graduate, Swain serves on the boards of ChamberRVA and the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond. She is in her second three-year term on the PBS Board of Directors. VPM began construction on its 53,000-square-foot headquarters in downtown Richmond in August 2024 and expects to move from its roughly 60-year location in Chesterfield County in early 2026.

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Since July 2022, Carpenter has been chief executive for Comscore, an analytics company that measures audience and consumer behaviors, along with advertising impact, across media platforms.

Carpenter started his career at Comscore as chief financial officer in 2021, moving up to CEO. Previously CFO for Publishers Clearing House, Carpenter also served in senior divisional CFO roles for Nielsen, Sears Holding and NBCUniversal after beginning his career at General Electric. In June 2024, Carpenter joined Comscore’s board of directors.

Comscore reported $356 million in 2024 revenue, down from $371.3 million in 2023. Content and ad measurement revenue declined 2.8% from 2023, and research and insight solutions revenue dropped 10.6%. The company projects its 2025 revenue will range from $360 million to $370 million.

In March 2024, Comscore announced a multiyear deal with Tysons-based Tegna, the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations, and in December 2024, Cox Media Group announced a multiyear deal with Comscore for CMG’s 14 TV stations.

Comscore announced some C-suite changes in January, appointing Frank Friedman as chief data and analytics officer and head of measurement and Jackelyn Keller as chief marketing officer.

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