Management
Scott Libin
Scott Libin is WCCO-TV's news director. He leads the station's news department and is responsible for all aspects of journalism at WCCO.
Scott joined the station in the fall of 2007 from The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he led seminars for journalists. He was a Poynter faculty from 1995-1998 and again from 2003-2007. Scott's teaching specialties are leadership and ethical decision-making. He has conducted training at television stations and journalism conferences internationally in areas including newsgathering, writing, producing and management.
From 1998-2003, Scott was news director of KSTP-TV, the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Before joining Poynter for the first time, he spent nine years at WGHP-TV, in the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, N.C., market, where he was vice president of news. Scott began at that station as a reporter, later working as weekend anchor, managing editor and news director.
Early in his career, Scott worked in Washington D.C., first as a congressional press secretary, then as a national correspondent for an independent television news bureau serving stations around the country. He holds a master's degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, and a bachelor's degree in English and journalism from the University of Richmond.
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