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Vanessa Strouse-Kenney is vice president and head of digital for the Scripps Networks’ Scripps News and Court TV. Strouse leads digital and social media strategies for the news group.

Prior to joining Scripps in June 2022, Strouse spent four years at Yahoo, where she served as Yahoo’s vice president and head of audience development and content strategy. In that role, Strouse oversaw content development, distribution strategy and audience acquisition for Yahoo’s media portfolio, including Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Lifestyle, Autoblog, Engadget, Makers and Built By Girls. She created and executed an audience development strategy for Yahoo’s social platforms. She also served as general manager for Autoblog and Engadget.

In 2007, Strouse launched Fox Business Network, where she spent a decade leading the creative teams for all programming. Strouse also led the graphics team at MSNBC and worked as a producer, writer and booker for CNBC, covering a wide variety of stories.

Strouse earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University-Long Beach.