Suzanne Scott, CEO of FOX News Media, will serve as the guest lecturer for the 2025 Baldwin Lecture. The annual lecture focuses on media operations and the business of journalism. The event is limited to current CIC students, invited guests and other campus VIPs.
Scott oversees eight linear streaming, digital, audio and publishing platforms, which collectively reach nearly 200 million people each month. Throughout her tenure, all of FOX News Media’s business units have broken company records while also delivering sustained growth. The company’s flagship FOX News Channel has been the most watched news network for more than 23 years and is the number one network in primetime in all of linear television.
“I am incredibly honored to participate in the Baldwin Lecture series and look forward to sharing my experience running FOX News Media during a historic period of rapid change throughout the industry,” said Scott.
Since Scott took over as CEO, she has created three new streaming offerings — the subscription-based FOX Nation in 2018 and FOX News International in 2020, and the FAST channel FOX Weather in 2021. As part of this signature multiplatform brand extension strategy, she also launched FOX News Books in 2020, a new publishing imprint that has sold more than three million books. Additionally, she oversaw the brand refresh of FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio and FOX Business Network. Most recently, Scott announced a new media expansion that encompasses licensing deals which leverage the creator economy via podcasting.
In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Forbes named Scott one of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Media and Entertainment.
“In a time when major media companies are slashing budgets, laying off pricey on-air talent, and battling to innovate in this new media landscape, under Suzanne Scott’s leadership, Fox News Media remains a thriving, profitable news enterprise,” said CIC Director Damion Waymer. “What a rare opportunity that our students, our alums and our College get to hear about industry insights and trends from such a media powerhouse. We are honored to welcome her here.”
The Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Lecture Series
Begun in 2015, the lecture series brings accomplished business and financial journalists to the university to share their expertise. Previous speakers include ESPN’s Dwayne Bray, journalist Charles Lewis and media executive Pattie Sellers.
Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Endowment Fund
Established in 2009, the Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Endowment Fund supports student and faculty initiatives that include research, symposia, lecturers, visiting professors, student assistantships and related programs.