E.W. Scripps names Chief Digital Officer Adam Symson to newly created position of chief operating officer, and it says President-CEO Rich Boehne will retire during the second half of 2017 and then remain chairman; at that time, Symson is expected to further advance to CEO; Scripps meanwhile adds Chris Way, ex-Lakana, as vice president-general manager, KMTV Omaha, effective Nov. 28 ... Cox Media Group moves Vice President-General Manager Greg Bilte to that role at KIRO-TV Seattle, effective Dec. 5 and succeeding Jay O’Connor, who said this summer he is leaving the company ... Ride Television Network, in buying production company F2 Media, said F2 co-owner Nathan Fletcher joins Ride as vice president-production.

In combination of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and Association of Cable Communicators (see 1611030018), ACC Executive Director Steven Jones leaving upon close, which may be Dec. 31, he told us; no staff will leave CTAM, its spokeswoman told us ... KVH Industries moves Mark Woodhead to senior vice president-training and content, new position and effective Jan. 1, succeeding Videotel CEO Nigel Cleave, retiring ... BSA | The Software Alliance moved Vice President Aaron Cooper to that role for global policy, leading its global policy team and working on issues including data privacy and security, intellectual property and trade.

Joining Brookings Institution is Nicol Turner-Lee, ex-Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, as fellow, Governance Studies program’s Center for Technology Innovation and contributor, TechTank ... Georgetown Law, starting Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy, names Alexandra Reeve Givens, ex-aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to lead it ... HSN hires Carmen Bauza, ex-Walmart, as executive vice president-chief merchandising officer, effective Nov. 28 ... Viacom promotes at Nickelodeon Joshua Braunstein to senior vice president-Nickelodeon corporate promotion and movie advertising ... Telemundo announces Daniela Chaparro Vegas, ex-NBCUniversal International Networks Latin America, as vice president-marketing.

Jori Arancio promoted to senior vice president-communications, ABC Entertainment & ABC Studios … Fox Networks Group names Meredith Brace, ex-true[X], senior vice president-digital sales; James Kiernan and David Borstein, both ex-Twitter, become vice presidents-digital sales … Edward Skolarus, ex-Fox Networks and News Corp., joins Investor's Business Daily as chief digital officer … Steve Wymer, ex-State Department, joins Nextdoor as vice president-communications and policy … Gopal Das Varma, ex-DOJ Antitrust Division, becomes Charles River Associates vice president-antitrust and competition economics practice … Thompson Hine said intellectual property litigators Thomas Southard and Brian Seal joined its business litigation practice in Washington as a partner and senior counsel, respectively.

DLA Piper confirms titles of Michael Senkowski and Nancy Victory, who were hired from Wiley Rein earlier this year (see 1609290039) and formerly ran communications groups there; now, they are co-chairs of DLA's telecom team in the Washington office; and that firm also said that their team includes partner Eric DeSilva and engineers Tom Dombrowsky and Michael Lewis; all of them also used to work at Wiley Rein ... General Cable appoints Matti Masanovich, ex-Delphi Automotive, its chief financial officer-senior vice president, effective Nov. 11 ... Venafi, protector of cryptographic keys and digital certificates, said Francois Delepine, ex-Trimble, is now chief financial officer ... Lifesize, videoconferencing technology provider, names Vineet Misra, ex-Domo, as chief information officer ... Joining Ensenta, mobile and online deposit software provider, is Nick Van Beurden, ex-Annie's, as vice president-finance ... Rapid7 appoints to board Judy Bruner, ex-SanDisk until it was bought this year by Western Digital.

Center for Democracy & Technology hires Joe Jerome, ex-WilmerHale, as policy counsel, CDT’s Privacy & Data Project ... Changes at Sinclair, effective Jan. 1: David Smith shifts to executive chairman, responsible for "development, implementation and globalization" of ATSC 3.0 (see 1611020025), expansion of Sinclair's "news franchise" and broadcast industry public policy; he's replaced as president-CEO by Christopher Ripley, succeeded as chief financial officer and treasurer by Lucy Rutishauser ... CompTIA names Geoff Lane, ex-App Developers Alliance, senior policy manager-government affairs.

Among Latham & Watkins associates promoted to partners effective Jan. 1 are, in Washington: Adam Greenfield, a member of the Litigation and Trial Department who represents clients in patent matters including over technology, and Matthew Murchison, member of the Corporate Department who handles regulatory, litigation and transactional matters in the communications sector; in Silicon Valley: Giri Pathmanaban, member of the Litigation and Trial Department who works on intellectual property litigation; in London: Deborah Kirk, member of the Corporate Department working on IP and tech-related issues in connection with transactions; and in Los Angeles promoted to counsel: Ghaith Mahmood, member of the Corporate Department who focuses on tech and IP-related transactions ... Future of Privacy Forum hires Amelia Vance, leaving National Association of State Boards of Education, as policy counsel, running education privacy project, to be effective Monday; succeeding her at NASBE is William Tucker, legal fellow who's taking over the data and technology project.

Charter Communications hires for Government Affairs team based in Washington, D.C.: Maureen O’Connell, ex-O’Connell Strategies and before that 21st Century Fox, as vice president-regulatory affairs, and Robert Kenny, ex-Mercury, as director-policy communications ... Viacom said board names Bob Bakish, who was president-CEO of Viacom International Media Networks, as acting president-CEO, effective Nov. 15; he succeeds Tom Dooley, leaving the company (see 1609210014); Bakish also was named president-CEO, Viacom Global Entertainment Group ... Lockheed Martin International hires David Trulio, ex-Raytheon and former corporate transactional lawyer, as vice president-international government affairs, operations, and regional executive, Latin America.

Eugene Kiselev of the FCC Media Bureau and Katherine LoPiccalo of the Office of Strategic Planning share the 2016 FCC Excellence in Economic Analysis Award, and Kamran Etemad of the Wireless Bureau and Robert Pavlak and Navid Golshahi of the Office of Engineering and Technology won the commission’s 2016 Excellence in Engineering Award ... Space Systems Loral names Richard White, ex-Capstone, senior vice president-business development, Government Systems ... Comcast promoted Sarah Gustashaw to vice president-finance, West Division ... Interactive Advertising Bureau names Dennis Buchheim, ex-Yahoo, senior vice president-data and ad effectiveness, and general manager-IAB Data Center of Excellence.

Comcast elevates Beth Choroser to vice president-regulatory affairs, moving to Washington and working on regulatory matters affecting broadband, voice, public safety and security with a primary focus on the FCC, succeeding Mary McManus, retiring Monday ... Progressive Policy Institute opens Brussels office; leading it is Michael Quigley, EU public affairs expert, named director-European office; the office also is led by PPI Executive Director Lindsay Mark Lewis ... 21st Century Fox hires Andrew Cripps, leaving Imax, as president-international theatrical distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Film, effective in January.