OZY Taps Tracy Moran to Head Up Digital News Division

By John Eggerton
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Moran, who has been general editor since 2013, succeeds Fay Schlesinger

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Silicon Valley-based OZY.com has named Tracy Moran to head up its digital news division, based in Washington. OZY bills itself as "news for the disruptive."

Moran, who has been general editor since 2013, succeeds Fay Schlesinger, who is moving to the UK to become head of national news for The Guardian. Moran reports to OZY CEO Carlos Watson. Before joining OZY, Moran was a writer and editor with USATODAY.com.

OZY, based in Mountain View, Calif., provides content for Amazon and Hulu as well as traditional nets OWN, PBS and the BBC.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.