Carolyn Pione Micheli is executive vice president and chief corporate communications and investor relations officer for The E.W. Scripps Company.
Carolyn handles long-term communications planning and directs the execution of those plans. She is responsible for the company’s image both externally and internally. She works closely with the CEO and directs executive communications, board communications, media relations and employee communications. She also oversees The Scripps National Spelling Bee and The Scripps Howard Fund.
In the investor relations portion of her role with Scripps, she provides counsel to outside analysts and shareholders, executive leadership and the Board of Directors on all investor relations and communications-related issues.
Prior to coming to Scripps, she was communications director for CincyTech, a public-private seed-stage investor focused on startup technology companies in Southwest Ohio. From 1996-2008, she worked as a journalist in a variety of roles, including business editor for The Cincinnati Enquirer. She began her career at The Associated Press in 1991.
She is a member of the leadership team and weekly volunteer at Saturday Hoops. She serves on the boards of the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, Bethesda Inc., the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and the Scripps Howard Fund. She is chair of the board of the Cincinnati Chamber Foundation.
She is a 1991 graduate of Miami University of Ohio and received a master’s degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University in 1996. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband and has a daughter who lives in New York City.