Longtime consultant/recruiter and news director, Tom Dolan will retire at the end of 2022. As founder and president of Dolan Media Management for the past 23 years, Dolan developed a management recruitment firm for TV news, digital and marketing.
Based in suburban Washington, D.C., the company built and trained management teams for TV stations and all their digital platforms, capitalizing on his 25 years of news experience and two decades as a news consultant and executive recruiter. According to Dolan, he helped place well over 500 managers and producers in some 70 markets.
He has been a resource for a number of companies, especially Hearst Television, as well as several ABC/Disney Owned stations, several NBC owned stations, as well as many owned by Scripps, Cox Television and previous owners Belo, Raycom, Dispatch and Schurz, plus CNN and KSL Salt Lake City. “We remained current by constantly reinventing our focus, adjusting to a changing business, and validating candidate performance through aggressive product review,” Dolan said.
Previously, he had been vice president of news and talent development for the Texas-based Broadcast Image Group from 1996 to 1999. As a consultant for a select group of TV stations, he also spearheaded the company’s management recruitment division for TV news and promotion. Dolan helped develop an advanced database for managers and producers, and a university program for young journalists.
Prior to his consulting career, Dolan was vice president of news at KSAZ Phoenix. During his three years there, he led the station through one