The festival’s longtime president is leaving the festival, as are about 10 others. Its owner, Penske Media, told staff ...

Forrest, who has served as SXSW co-president since 2022 and president since 2024, originated and nurtured to prominence the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — South by Southwest (SXSW) now has a new director in charge who will lead the festival. Jenny Connelly said on ...

On April 25, SXSW President Hugh Forrest, who has been with the festival since 1989 and also served as head of programming ...

South by Southwest announced Jenny Connelly as its new Director-in-Charge as former President Hugh Forrest maintains he was ...

Hugh Forrest is one of several prominent SXSW employees who lost their jobs in the shakeup made my Penske Media Corp.

Forrest joined SXSW in 1989. He became chief programming officer in 1994, was promoted to co-president in 2022 and became the ...

SXSW leadership changes are confirmed, with Hugh Forrest out as president and PMC exec Jenny Connelly taking over as CEO of ...

President and chief programming officer Hugh Forrest is no longer leading the festival, the Austin Business Journal reports.

Hugh Forrest, Co-President and Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest, introduces Bluesky Social CEO Jay Gruber and TechDirt Editor Mike Masnick at SXSW at the Austin Convention Center ...

Penske Media became a shareholder in SXSW in 2021 when it partnered with MRC Media & Info to form P-MRC and take a 50% ...

Former South by Southwest President Hugh Forrest says parent company Penske Media forced him out during an executive shakeup.