John Lansing, , a senior vice president of The E. W. Scripps Company, was named president of Scripps Networks in January 2005. He has strategic and operational oversight of the company’s portfolio of leading national lifestyle cable networks, including HGTV, Food Network, DIY, FINE LIVING and Great American Country (GAC), HGTV.com, Foodnetwork.com, DIYnetwork.com, Fineliving.com and their associated websites and other interactive businesses.

Lansing is a longtime employee of The E.W. Scripps Company, the parent company of Scripps Networks. Lansing joined Scripps Networks in January 2004 as Executive Vice President. He previously had been at the Scripps headquarters in Cincinnati, where he was senior vice president for the Scripps TV station group. Before running that division, Lansing worked at two Scripps-owned affiliates: WEWS in Cleveland, where he was the vice president and general manager; and WXYZ in Detroit, where he worked as vice president and station manager.
 
Lansing began his career as a news photographer at age 17 at WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky.  He then became chief news photographer, and later managing editor, at WAVE-TV in Louisville from 1980 to 1986.  He then joined WWMT-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan as news director until 1988, when he returned to his hometown of Minneapolis to become the assistant news director at KARE-TV.  Two years later, he was named news director at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and then promoted by to news director at WBBM-TV in Chicago.
 
In 1994 John led the WCCO I-Team in achieving the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award.  He is also the recipient of an AWRT National Commendation for editorial writing in 1993.  In 1990 he led the KARE Special Projects team to a National Headliner Award for community service; in 1989 was named Gannett Television News Executive of the Year.  John is the recipient of numerous awards for photojournalism, including NPPA Photographer of the Year for the Midwestern Region in 1985.
 
John studied marketing and business administration at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky.  Prior to moving to Scripps Networks, he served as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for professional journalists, in St. Petersburg, Fla.  

John also serves on the board of the Knoxville Urban League.