Rich Boehne (born 1958) is an American media executive. He is the chairman of the board of the

E.W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

, and its former president and chief executive officer.

Education

Boehne was born in 1958. He studied at Highlands High School in Kentucky. He has a Bachelors in Communication and Journalism from the

Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky. It is primarily an undergraduate institution with over 14,000 students; over 12,000 are undergraduate students and nearly 2,000 are graduate students. Northern K ...

(NKU), by whom he was described as “one of

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most successful alumni.

Career

Boehne started his career selling subscriptions for ''

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'', while he was in

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. Having graduated school, he worked at ''

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'' as a part-time

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. Once he had his

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, he joined a chain of community newspapers, where he progressed while Suburban Communications (the company owner) bought and consolidated various Midwestern family-owned publications. Boehne started working at Scripps in 1988 in the capacity of

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and a year later,

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. He soon after became Director of Communication Efforts for the firm, simultaneously participating in the group that worked on the company’s long-term

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and development. In 1995 he became a

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. Boehne was appointed as the chief executive officer of E.W. Scripps in 2008. He became chairman of the board in 2013, taking over from Nackey Scagliotti who had held the position for five years. Boehne was succeeded as president and CEO by Adam P. Symson on August 8, 2017.

Board memberships

Boehne sits on the

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of the

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, Cincinnati’s External Advisory Board at

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, the

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at Northern Kentucky University and is a Director of Cincinnati's

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. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce’s (where in the past he held the role of Chairman) Agenda 360 Regional Planning Organization. Within this role he solidifies the firm’s commitment to public service via its adage, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

Philanthropy

Scripps donated $1 million in Boehne’s name to the

Scripps Howard Foundation The Scripps Howard Fund is a public charity that supports philanthropic causes important to the E. W. Scripps Company, an American media conglomerate which owns television stations, cable television networks, and other media outlets. The goal of t ...

in 2014.

References

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