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accession: "0001104659-25-085771"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000039899"
company_name: "TEGNA INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:20:18.609006+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# TEGNA amends bylaws: raises director mandatory retirement age to 75, removes automatic retirement at 73

## Summary
- Board eliminated mandatory retirement at 73 for non-executive and CEO directors.
- Directors must now submit resignation offer within 30 days of turning 75; board decides acceptance.
- If board rejects resignation, director continues but must re-offer annually after each birthday.
- Changes effective immediately upon board approval on August 26, 2025.
- Amended bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.1; full text incorporated by reference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-085771
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000039899
- company_name: TEGNA INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000110465925085771/0001104659-25-085771-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000110465925085771/tm2523861d2_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  TEGNA INC: Amended By-laws to replace mandatory retirement at 73 with a resignation-offer process at 75 for both Non-Executive Directors and CEO directors (effective 2025-08-26).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-08-26
  source text: On August 26, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board of Directors”) of TEGNA Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments to certain provisions of the Company’s By-laws, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39899/000110465925085771/0001104659-25-085771-index.htm

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