Senior Counsel, Media Transactions (Remote - Georgia)

About the role

This is a remote position offering the flexibility to work from your home office while collaborating with talented colleagues across the company. You will provide strategic legal guidance on commercial transactions, original production activities, content licensing, distribution matters, and operational issues—partnering closely with business leaders to drive results and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a generalist media/entertainment attorney supporting matters involving distribution, programming, production, licensing, advertising, marketing, operations, and corporate initiatives.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements, including content licensing, production, services, vendor, nondisclosure, release, and other media-related contracts.
• Support original production and content-rights work, including development, production, clearance, rights, releases, production services, location matters, risk management, acquisition, use, distribution, renewal, sublicensing, exclusivity, windowing, territory, term, and rights-clearance issues.
• Support distribution-related legal work, including carriage, affiliation, retransmission, platform, and digital distribution arrangements, as needed.
• Oversee and manage litigation and disputes, including outside counsel strategy, budgets, pleadings and correspondence, discovery, settlement evaluation, pre-litigation disputes, demand letters, claims, subpoenas, investigations, and stakeholder communications.
• Provide practical advice on negotiation strategy, risk mitigation, contract interpretation, compliance obligations, operational questions, and dispute avoidance.
• Maintain templates, playbooks, approval processes, and best practices.
• Support responsible AI and technology-enabled legal department improvements.
• Monitor relevant legal and industry developments.
• Support special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in good standing with at least one state bar; OH, NY, or GA preferred.
• Generally, 10+ years of experience working in a media and/or television environment with content exploited through linear and non-linear means, including broadcast, cable, streaming, and digital platforms.
• Significant experience practicing law in a law firm, corporate legal department, media company, entertainment company, or comparable business environment, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating media/entertainment-focused agreements.

Skills

• Practical legal judgment and risk assessment.
• Strong business partnership and client service orientation.
• Contract drafting and negotiation skills.
• Litigation management and dispute resolution.
• Media, production, licensing, and distribution fluency.
• Clear communication and executive presence.
• Project management and prioritization skills.
• Technology fluency, including openness to artificial intelligence and other tools to support efficient, high-quality legal services.
• A collaborative, collegial, team-oriented approach.

The E.W. Scripps Company is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of various protected characteristics.