Dave Giles is chief legal officer of The E.W. Scripps Company.
Giles has served as chief ethics officer since 2010 and been with the organization since 2004. He oversees the company’s litigation, including defamation and intellectual property matters, antitrust compliance and regulatory issues involving the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. He has also overseen Scripps’ employment and labor practice.
Before joining Scripps in 2004, Dave was a litigation attorney at Baker Hostetler in Denver and Washington, D.C. He began his professional career as a reporter, covering crime, business and community issues for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1986-89 and as a reporter on the States Desk at USA Today from 1983-84.
Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from St. Lawrence University, a master’s degree in journalism from The University of Kansas and a juris doctor degree from the Washington & Lee University School of Law.
Dave is on the boards of the William Allen White Foundation and the Scripps Howard Fund. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law and a former board member of Easterseals Redwood.