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Scott Oldham (born 1969) was vice president of editorial for Edmunds Inc.'s Edmunds.com, where he was responsible for the quality and direction of content published. [1] He started with Edmunds.com in December 2004 as senior editor with the company's now-defunct enthusiast site, Inside Line, and left the company in October 2016. [2] Oldham was invited to be on the North American Car and Truck of Year Jury. The jury consists of 50 of the top journalists from a variety of automotive media outlets in the United States and Canada. [3]

He earned his BA in journalism from Glassboro State College, now known as Rowan University. Previously, he worked at Sport Compact Car, European Car , Popular Hot Rodding and Popular Mechanics and has also been published in Car and Driver and the Los Angeles Times . [2]

Oldham was on the board of the Los Angeles-based Motor Press Guild, and has been the president of that association. [2]

Family

His father is Joe Oldham, who was Popular Mechanics' longtime editor.

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