Nexstar Media Group Appoints Courtney Williams as Chief Diversity Officer
June 09, 2021 at 01:09 pm
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Nexstar Media Group has named Courtney Williams to the newly created position of Chief Diversity Officer, responsible for leading the company's efforts to expand diversity in hiring, promotion, and retention. Williams currently serves as Vice President of Human Resources for the company. She will continue to report to Terri Bush, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Associate Counsel, and assume her additional duties immediately. Williams joined Nexstar in late-2019, after serving in a variety of human resources leadership positions across a broad array of companies in different industries, including General Electric, Coca-Cola Refreshments, Gannett (now TEGNA) and Tribune Media. She was promoted to Vice President of Human Resources for Nexstar in September 2020, responsible for helping guide the Company's corporate management teams on all human resources issues, directing human resources staff, and optimizing the efficient delivery of corporate support to all employees on human resource matters.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is a diversified media company with television broadcasting, television network and digital media assets operating in the United States. The Company produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms. The Companyâs segments include Broadcast and The CW Network, LLC (The CW). The Broadcast segment includes television stations and related local websites that Company owns, operates, programs or provides sales and other services to in various markets across the United States, NewsNation, a national cable news network, two owned and operated digital multicast networks and other multicast network services, and WGN-AM, a Chicago radio station. The CW segment is a broadcast network in the United States. The other activities of the Company include digital businesses focused on the national marketplace and the management of certain real estate assets.