What Happened?
New York, NY-based Hearst has Promoted Dave Kaylor as Director of Veteran Recruiting
About the Company
Hearst is one of the nation`s largest diversified media, information and technology companies. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; majority ownership of global ratings agency Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; 31 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, Calif., which reach a combined 18 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union, more than 300 magazines around the world including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper`s BAZAAR and Car & Driver; digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital and video companies such as United Artists Media Group, BuzzFeed, VICE and AwesomenessTV.
About the Person
Dave Kaylor is the Director of Veteran Recruiting at Hearst Television, effective 1st July 2015. In this new role, Kaylor — who served for four decades in the U.S. Navy, most recently as a Senior Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve — will assist Katherine Barnett, Hearst Television VP of human resources, with the expansion of the company`s efforts to recruit veterans for open positions throughout the Hearst TV station group. As director of engineering since 2003 at WCVB, Kaylor directed the station`s successful launch of news and other local programming in high definition. He previously was director of engineering for WISN, Hearst`s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, and, before that, as news operations manager at KCRA, Hearst`s NBC affiliate in Sacramento, Calif. He began his broadcast television career at WFLA Tampa, Fla., rising from engineering maintenance technician to news operations manager. Before entering broadcasting, Kaylor served the U.S. Navy for five years as a submarine atmosphere control technician. He holds a B.A. in social sciences from the University of South Florida and an M.A. in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. A prolific writer, Kaylor earned two Emmy nominations in his civilian career, and has been honored for journalism in his military career. As a public affairs specialist, he was awarded a Chief of Information Merit Award for best news story, U.S. Navy, in 1999, and he received a Thomas Jefferson Award for best news story, Department of Defense, in 2000. His writings and photography have been published in more than 25 Navy and Department of Defense publications. Kaylor served in active duty twice, most recently in Kabul, Afghanistan. For his service there, he was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He retired from military service in 2013, 40 years after he first enlisted, as the Senior Enlisted Leader for Naval Reserves Navy Central Command, Commander U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.
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