---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-032585"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEE"
cik: "0000058361"
company_name: "LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc"
filed_at: "2022-12-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T23:07:20.864290+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ray Farris, Operating VP and VP of Advertising, to retire effective Jan 1, 2023

## Summary
- Farris and Lee Enterprises entered an irrevocable retirement agreement dated Dec 23, 2022.
- Farris was a named executive officer in the 2020–2022 proxy statements.
- He served as Operating Vice President and VP of Advertising since 2019; previously president/publisher of St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- No replacement named; retirement effective January 1, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-032585
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEE
- cik: 0000058361
- company_name: LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc
- filed_at: 2022-12-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000162828022032585/0001628280-22-032585-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000162828022032585/lee-20221223.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-032585
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-032585.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-032585.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ray Farris departed as Operating Vice President and VP of Advertising at LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc.
  - Action: retirement
  - Role: Operating Vice President and VP of Advertising
  source text: Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (the “Company”) and Ray Farris, Operating Vice President and VP of Advertising for the Company, entered into an agreement, which became irrevocable on December 23, 2022, and details Mr. Farris’s retirement from the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000162828022032585/0001628280-22-032585-index.htm

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