CNBC has tapped The Information’s Ken Brown as the community’s new managing editor of digital and editorial technique.
“He will play a key role in ensuring our digital reporting is essential, exclusive and closely connected to the strengths of the broader CNBC newsroom. Ken will also help accelerate our digital strategy and sharpen how we cover the forces reshaping business, markets and the economy,” CNBC Editor in Chief David Cho mentioned in a memo to employees on Thursday. “From the capital demands of AI and the pace of innovation to the resurgence of dealmaking, major shifts are rapidly transforming industries. We see enormous opportunity to deepen our reporting, break more news and grow our audience around these stories.”
Brown may also accomplice intently with CNBC’s editorial management on the TV facet to strengthen the affect of its journalism throughout platforms. He will begin in his new position on June 8.
At The Information, Brown helped drive protection associated to the intersection of know-how, finance and enterprise. He expanded the outlet’s protection of the financing of AI and the expansion of knowledge facilities.
Before that, he served in a wide range of management positions at The Wall Street Journal throughout investigations, finance, local weather, markets and international protection. At the Journal, he helped lead the paper’s award-winning work reporting on the worldwide monetary disaster and reported extensively on the bursting of the tech bubble. He has additionally led investigations into crypto, the Trump household’s funds, the Mormon church’s large wealth and the Malaysian funding fund 1MDB, which ensnared Goldman Sachs, Middle Eastern royalty and Hollywood stars.
In addition to his journalism profession, Brown spent two years on the buyside at Pzena Investment Management.
