CDC Gaming Reports announced that it has named award-winning gaming journalist Howard Stutz executive editor. Stutz will oversee all editorial functions for the gaming industry news outlet.
Stutz, 59, has spent more than three decades in Las Vegas as a gaming news journalist, including two stints with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, from 1987 to 1991 and from 2004 to 2016. He famously resigned from the newspaper on the basis of integrity concerns after the paper was purchased by the family of Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson.
He will supervise CDC’s editorial activity, including website content and article selections for the site’s various newsletters. Stutz will also write articles on gaming industry news, events and personalities, and will author a weekly commentary.
Stutz will work closely with Associate Publisher Cory Roberts, Associate Editor Justin Martin, and Senior Analyst Ken Adams in producing the CDC Gaming Reports’ daily newsletters and special reports. He will advise the website’s team of freelance writers and commentators.
The hiring of Stutz allows CDC Gaming Reports Publisher Jeffrey Compton to focus on the website’s business development, subscriptions, marketing partnerships, casino certifications and advertising.
“Howard Stutz has long served on our Advisory Board and has provided valuable input to the operations of CDC,” Compton said. “Bringing Howard on board to oversee our editorial functions gives CDC a dedicated journalist with a wealth of institutional knowledge about the gaming industry and deep background of resources to lead our news coverage.”
During his years with the Review-Journal, Stutz closely followed the expansion of the gaming industry nationally and internationally. He traveled across the U.S. to write about gaming growth in various markets, and to Macau to examine gaming development there.
“It’s great to have Howard back covering the gaming industry,” American Gaming Association CEO Geoff Freeman said Monday morning. “He’s long been one of the best—great contacts, great insights and great to work with. Welcome back, Howard.”
In 2015, Stutz was part of the Review-Journal team that won several ethics awards for covering the secret purchase of the newspaper by Adelson’s family. The honors included the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University and the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon.
Stutz won the inaugural Peter Mead Memorial Award for Excellence in Gaming Media & Communications from the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers in 2016.
Stutz has also worked in the gaming industry as a corporate communications and public relations representative for publicly traded companies.
