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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-018861"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000039899"
company_name: "TEGNA INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:05:43.326036+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# TEGNA director Karen Grimes to retire, will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Karen Grimes notified TEGNA on Feb. 9, 2025 of her decision to retire from the Board and not stand for re-election.
- Her retirement is not due to any disagreement with the Company or management on operations, policies, or practices.
- Grimes will serve out her current term, which expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- No successor has been named in this filing; the Board thanked Grimes for her service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-018861
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000039899
- company_name: TEGNA INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000095017025018861/0000950170-25-018861-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000095017025018861/tgna-20250209.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-018861
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-018861.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-018861.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Karen Grimes departed as Director at TEGNA INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 9, 2025, Karen Grimes notified TEGNA Inc. (the “Company”) of her decision to retire from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and not to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000095017025018861/0000950170-25-018861-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.