Born: 4 February 1949, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Upon C. A. Scott’s retirement in 1997, M. Alexis Scott, a granddaughter of W. A. Scott, was named president and chair of the board of directors (of the Atlanta Daily World). (The board’s five members represented two generations of the Scott family.) Alexis Scott worked for more than twenty years as a reporter and editor with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Enterprises before joining the family business. In 1998 she discussed with Essence magazine the challenges faced by the newspaper’s staff, some of whom were in their eighties, as she brought new technology into the office. Although some of the employees, many of them members of the Scott family, experienced difficulties with such changes, Scott emphasized that her “older employees are a valuable part of my staff.” In 2007 Alexis Scott was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, part of Georgia State University in Atlanta.