Scripps Taps Beck As A Group News Exec

Cameryn Beck, a veteran television journalist, has been hired as a senior director of news strategy for the television division of The E.W. Scripps Co.

Beck is now executive news director at KTVK Phoenix. She will remain based in Phoenix and will work closely with Lana Durban, also a senior director of news strategy, who is based in Cincinnati.

Like Durban, Beck will be responsible for assisting in strategy implementation at the 16 Scripps stations with news departments. In 2015, when Scripps merges with Journal Communications, that number will rise to 29 stations with news programming.

“Cameryn has a track record of success,” said Sean McLaughlin, Scripps VP of news. “At KTVK, she revolutionized the news programs and turned the ratings completely around. She is clearly the kind of person who generates results.”

Before moving to KTVK in early 2013, Beck worked at KOVR Sacramento, Calif., from 2005 to 2013, serving as the news director, an assistant news director and executive producer. While at KOVR, she developed its brand “Asking questions, getting questions,” helped reinvent its newscasts and grew viewership in all key demographics. She also focused on creating cross-platform opportunities using the station website and social media.

Beck received a bachelor’s in radio, television and film from San Diego State University.