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The piece begins with a reference to the racially insensitive incident involving Adonis Hoffman and CEO Dave Lougee, and the Board’s failure to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into that matter.
Specifics about this episode were reported by Deadline.com in March during what the site characterized as a proxy battle for TEGNA. The company has rebuffed acquisition overtures despite the preferences of some of its privately held investors. One stakeholder hedge fund Standard General is calling for a shakeup of the board and had initially nominated Hoffman for a seat. Lougee, a white University of Colorado Boulder graduate who was a 9News executive before being named to lead TEGNA in 2017, is said to have wound up on the hot seat after word surfaced about a 2014 industry event during which he mistook Hoffman, a longtime fixture in Washington media and regulatory circles who is Black, for a valet, handing him the ticket for his car. Lougee apologized afterward,
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A new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing concerning Tegna includes accusations of “broad pattern of bias and racially-insensitive behavior” that were shared with the media company by its largest active shareholder.
The allegations in Thursday s filing were made in a “six-page, single-spaced letter” given to shareholder Standard General, which in turn shared them with Tegna.
The document was filed with the SEC by Standard General in preparation for Tegna s annual shareholders meeting scheduled for May 7.
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The allegations include an incident of a Tegna employee, who’s now a vice president, wearing blackface while dressed as Michael Jackson at a company event in the 1980s. They also referenced image consultants advising Asian reporters how to use makeup so their eyes looked more “Western” and requiring “Latinx employees to disclose their own immigration status when broadcasting about such issues.” The letter did not m