Rich Boehne, , is The E.W. Scripps Company’s president and chief executive officer. He also is a member of the company’s board of directors.

Scripps today includes local media businesses - broadcast television stations, newspapers, and news and information Internet sites - plus a national and international licensing and syndication unit.

Prior to the separation of Scripps into two publicly traded companies, Boehne was chief operating officer of the combined enterprise. The company’s cable networks and specialty Internet search businesses were spun off July 1, 2008 into a new company – Scripps Networks Interactive.

Rich joined the Scripps corporate staff in 1988, just prior to the parent company’s initial public offering.

Before moving to Scripps headquarters, he was a business reporter and editor at The Cincinnati Post, a Scripps newspaper, where he covered Wall Street, the national economy, and developments in the media industry.

He began his media career in high school selling subscriptions for The Cincinnati Post.  A few years later, he landed a job as a part-time reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer. He later graduated from college and joined a growing chain of community newspapers. He progressed through that company as the owner, Suburban Communications, purchased and consolidated a number of family-owned publications in the Midwest.

The E.W. Scripps Company was preparing for its coming out party on Wall Street when Rich joined the corporate staff in early 1988 as manager of investor relations, a brand-new function in the 110-year-old enterprise. Scripps went public that summer and Rich was charged with building a base of public shareholders who would support the company's long-term mission and be good partners for the Scripps family.

Several years later, Rich became director of all of the company's communication efforts. He also joined the company's long-range strategic planning and development group, and in May 1995 became a vice president of the corporation.

In 1998, Rich co-founded the Scripps Leadership Institute, a bi-annual program that identifies and provides training for up-and-coming senior-level managers.

He was elected executive vice president in February 1999 and named chief operating officer in April 2006.

Rich received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Kentucky University in 1981. In 1996, he received the university's annual Professional Achievement Award, and in 2001 was named the university's Outstanding Alumnus.