Phil Pruitt — Digital Media Editor at E.W. Scripps Company

Mr. Phil Pruitt has been Digital Media Editor at The E. W. Scripps Company since January 2014. Previously, Mr. Pruitt served at Yahoo News, where he was instrumental in helping Yahoo expand its focus to include original content. As senior politics editor in Washington, D.C., he oversaw the packaging and presentation of daily political reporting, including coverage of the 2010 and 2012 elections. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was an editorial leader and digital innovator at USA Today and Gannett News Service. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Deputy Managing Editor for news at USA Today, leading coordination of online and print editions of the newspaper. He supervised a digital news staff and directed a network of national correspondents that produced major breaking stories and enterprise pieces for online and print. He served as senior Washington editor of Gannett News Service and enterprise editor, overseeing major investigative projects and coordinating with Gannett newspapers and television stations across the country. In 1991, he was the editor on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series titled Getting Away with Murder that disclosed hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors by coroners. He graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor's degree in history and from the University of Iowa with a master's degree in mass communications.