John F. Lansing
President, Scripps Networks
Executive Vice President, Scripps Networks Interactive Inc.
John F. Lansing is President of Scripps Networks, with responsibilities over the Scripps cable networks -- HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network, and Great American Country (GAC) – and SN Digital, Scripps Networks’ diversified, multi-platform group including Foodnetwork.com, HGTV.com. In 2008, he assumed the additional title of Executive Vice President of parent company Scripps Networks Interactive Inc.
Lansing joined Scripps Networks in January 2004 as executive vice president, from The E.W. Scripps Company headquarters in Cincinnati, where, since September 2000, he had been senior vice president for television in charge of the Scripps broadcasting division, including 10 television stations. Prior to holding that position, Lansing worked at two Scripps-owned affiliates: WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was vice president and general manager from 1997 to 2001; and WXYZ in Detroit, where he worked as vice president and station manager beginning in 1995.
Lansing began his career as a news photographer at age 17 at WPSD-TV in Paducah, KY. He then became chief news photographer, and later managing editor, at WAVE-TV in Louisville, KY., from 1980 to 1986. He joined WWMT-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan as news director until 1988, when he returned to his hometown of Minneapolis to become the assistant news director at KARE-TV. Two years later, he was named news director at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis where he served for four years before being promoted to news director at WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1994.
In 2006, The Delaney Report named Lansing the Cable Broadcasting Executive of the Year for his part in keeping Scripps’ lifestyle networks “fresh, informative and lively.” In 1994, Lansing led the WCCO I-Team to being awarded the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award for Investigative Reporting. He also is the recipient of an American Women in Radio and Television National Commendation for editorial writing in 1993. In 1990 he led the KARE Special Projects team to a National Headliner Award for community service; and in 1989 was named Gannett Television News Executive of the Year.
Prior to moving to Scripps Networks, Lansing served as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for professional journalists, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and previously served on the board of the Scripps Foundation. Lansing currently serves on the board of the Knoxville Area Urban League, and is serving as chair of the 2009 United Way Campaign of Greater Knoxville. Lansing graduated Cume Laude from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky with a degree in Communications Studies. Lansing and his wife Jean have three sons, twins Alex and Jackson - ages 14, Nicholas - age 10, and a daughter, Jennifer - age 6.
Vikki Porter
Vikki Porter is director of the Knight Digital Media Center and supervises Professional Development Programs for New Media journalists at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. She was the founding director of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. During her 30-year journalism career, Porter worked in five Western states, started a newspaper, served as top editor for three community newspapers, and shared a 1986 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal as part of a five-person team while city editor of The Denver Post. Most recently, she was executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, CA. Porter was a Knight Professional-in-Residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1987-88 and a Knight Journalism Fellow in Studies of Law at Yale Law School in 1988-89, where she earned her Masters in Studies of Law. She is active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and has been invited to participate in conferences hosted by the Pew Foundation for Public Journalism, the Freedom Forum, Harwood and Associates and the American Press Institute.
John du Pre Gauntt
John du pre Gauntt focuses on the intersection of technology, economics and media. Previously, John was senior mobile analyst for eMarketer, a New York City-based market research firm for the advertising and marketing industries. His analysis of emerging trends in media and marketing has been featured in The Economist, New York Times and Washington Post among others. He has conducted private research for clients such as Google, Nokia, Groupe Publicis and NTT DoCoMo. His published work includes the World Economic Forum, the Economist Intelligence Unit and various academic and industry presentations. John current research concentrates on the impact of cloud computing on media and marketing through his blog site Media Dojo (www.media-dojo.com).
This year, John was a Knight Foundation fellow at the University of Maryland at College Park where he specialized in digital privacy issues in distributed computing environments. John earned a Master of Science with Distinction in Information Systems from The London School of Economics.
Networks, with responsibilities over the Scripps cable networks -- HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network, and Great American Country (GAC) – and SN Digital, Scripps Networks’ diversified, multi-platform group including Foodnetwork.com, HGTV.com. In 2008, he assumed the additional title of Executive Vice President of parent company Scripps Networks Interactive Inc.
Vikki Porter is director of the Knight Digital Media Center and supervises Professional Development Programs for New Media journalists at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. She was the founding director of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. During her 30-year journalism career, Porter worked in five Western states, started a newspaper, served as top editor for three community newspapers, and shared a 1986 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal as part of a five-person team while city editor of The Denver Post. Most recently, she was executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, CA. Porter was a Knight Professional-in-Residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1987-88 and a Knight Journalism Fellow in Studies of Law at Yale Law School in 1988-89, where she earned her Masters in Studies of Law. She is active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and has been invited to participate in conferences hosted by the Pew Foundation for Public Journalism, the Freedom Forum, Harwood and Associates and the American Press Institute.
John du pre Gauntt focuses on the intersection of technology, economics and media. Previously, John was senior mobile analyst for eMarketer, a New York City-based market research firm for the advertising and marketing industries. His analysis of emerging trends in media and marketing has been featured in The Economist, New York Times and Washington Post among others. He has conducted private research for clients such as Google, Nokia, Groupe Publicis and NTT DoCoMo. His published work includes the World Economic Forum, the Economist Intelligence Unit and various academic and industry presentations. John current research concentrates on the impact of cloud computing on media and marketing through his blog site Media Dojo (www.media-dojo.com).