Nexstar promotes Walsh, Kellerman to VP positions

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) has promoted two news content leaders to new positions within the company’s broadcast division; Jerry Walsh has been elevated to senior vice president of local content development and Austin Kellerman has been promoted to vice president of local digital content strategy.

Walsh has served as the broadcast division’s vice president of local content development since April of 2017. In his current role, Walsh is responsible for coordinating and supervising Nexstar’s coverage of political affairs, including major party conventions, debates and elections.  He also oversees Nexstar’s Washington, D.C., bureau, and he supports Nexstar’s 110 local newsrooms across the country.

Walsh joined the Nexstar corporate team in July of 2011 as the director of local content development. From 2007 to 2011, he was news director at Nexstar station WROC-TV (CBS) in Rochester, New York (DMA #77). Under his leadership in Rochester, the station grew television ratings, digital audience, expanded newscasts and earned several journalism awards.

Kellerman has served as the broadcast division’s senior director of local digital content strategy since 2019, and works with the company’s 200 owned and partner television stations across the country to build localized strategies, implement best practices and create high-performing content that can be shared across the company.

Kellerman joined Nexstar in 2008 as the news director overseeing the company’s broadcast and digital news operations in Abilene, Texas (DMA #167).  He also served as news director for Nexstar’s Little Rock, Arkansas, TV station (DMA #60), KARK-TV (NBC), and its partner station in the market, KLRT-TV (FOX).