Chris Peña is joining TEGNA Inc. as vice president of content for the Midwest region, effective June 30.
Based in Indianapolis, Peña will manage content strategy and operations for TEGNA stations in Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Davenport, and Minneapolis.
Peña’s appointment is part of a broader content leadership expansion that includes two other vice presidents of content: Carol Fowler, who will oversee content strategy for the company’s Mid-South stations, and Julie Wolfe, who will manage TEGNA’s Western stations. The three new VPs will support TEGNA’s recently announced local news expansion, adding more than 100 hours of new daily streaming programming across 51 markets.
Peña was most recently director of broadcast transformation at consulting company Blue Engine. Before that, he spent seven years as senior vice president of news at Univision Local Media, exiting the company in 2023.
He previously held roles as senior executive producer at MSNBC, executive editor of NBCLatino.com, assistant news director at NBC Chicago, executive producer at NBC Miami, and news director at KTMD Telemundo Houston.
This guy is such a loser. A kiss ass, white washed, Hispanc. He was not respected at all at Uniision nor at NBC before that
But he’s really really good at being an empty suit.
No me sorprende que ineptos como este aun sigan en esta industria
Amazing leader who always pushed us to try new things… supportive and a great mentor… we need more people like him.