Headed to Tegna

The man that has been behind the push to change the Tegna stations from doing news to doing social media on TV is headed to Tegna full time. 

Starting in January, Joel Cheatwood is joining Tegna as the VP of Content Development for the company.

Cheatwood was consulting the Tegna stations as part of the firm Red Seat Ventures. That consulting was part of the idea that many Tegna stations would start relying less on covering news and more on finding stories on Facebook and putting them on the air. 

Many have felt that the move from news content to social media content has been a disaster, but obviously, Tegna is going all in by hiring Cheatwood fulltime. 

Here is the note he sent out on Facebook about his new gig. 

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