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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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