Delaware Live CEO Shupe to exit company amid reorganization [Video]

WILMINGTON — Community news website Delaware Live has announced that one of its founders, Rep. Bryan Shupe, will be exiting the company on Sept. 30.

The move means Delaware Live owner and ShopRite President and CEO Chris Kenny will assume the top job, as well as Editor-in-Chief. Betsy Price, who served as the outlet’s first editor, will also step down from her role as she plans to write on a part-time basis during her retirement. Kenny will continue to manage the business’s administrative, finance and human resource functions.

Delaware Live is using the leadership changes to revisit its expansion plans, which will include hiring more journalists to the newsroom. The statewide outlet was first launched in 2020 as Shupe merged his own start-up news website Milford Live and went into business with Kenny who now plans to accelerate Delaware Live’s growth as a regional news website.

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