Brian Norris

Adjunct Professor of Communications

Brian Norris is executive vice president and chief revenue officer for The E.W. Scripps Company.

He is responsible for advertising revenue across all Scripps properties, including more than 60 local television stations, eight national news and entertainment networks and CTV offerings.

Before joining Scripps in August 2023, Norris led NBC Universal’s SMB growth division as senior vice president. In this role, he led the sales team responsible for leveraging NBCUniversal’s suite of premium content and advanced advertising capabilities to assist small and medium-sized businesses scale beyond social media. Prior to that, he built NBCUniversal’s first business development and sales team dedicated to the direct-to-consumer and mid-market category as senior vice president of direct-to-scale and commerce partnerships.

Norris serves on the board of HyphaMetrics, a data and technology company that focuses on measuring cross-platform media consumption.

Norris previously led media sales for DISH Network and Sling TV. He joined DISH in 2008 to help launch DISH Media Sales’ flagship office in New York. Earlier in his career, he held sales roles with Viacom and Lifetime Entertainment Services.

In addition to his tenured footprint in the media industry, Norris also serves as an adjunct professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in New York and is on the Dean’s Advisory Council for The College of Fine Arts and Communication at Towson University.

He currently serves as vice chairman of the board of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) Foundation—a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to building future leaders and increasing diversity in the media industry. He was inducted into the IRTS Foundation’s Hall of Mentorship in 2022.

Norris holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He is based in New York.