Newsweek has hired Josh Awtry as senior VP of audience development. As per the announcement:
“Awtry will chart an ambitious path for growth by engaging Americans with unique content that spans the cultural and political spectrum to further Newsweek’s mission of welcoming diverse views and voices that advance the search for common ground.”
Recently, Awtry served as senior VP of audience at The Hill. Before that, he worked at Gannett | USA Today Network for more than eight years. There, he held the posts of VP of news/executive editor for North Carolina’s Asheville Citizen-Times and South Carolina’s Greenville News.
He also worked at the Salt Lake Tribune for more than six years as an assistant managing editor and served as a design director at The Sun News.
Awtry has a bachelor’s degree from Hastings College in Nebraska.
You can congratulate Awtry on Twitter.
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