The Information’s Ken Brown is becoming a member of CNBC as managing editor of digital and editorial technique.
Editor in Chief David Cho wrote in a memo to employees that Brown will lead CNBC Digital and “help elevate the ambition, distinctiveness and impact of our journalism across platforms.”
“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.”
Brown’s appointment is a major rent for Cho, who joined CNBC final summer season.
Cho wrote, “Ken will also help accelerate our digital strategy and sharpen how we cover the forces reshaping business, markets and the economy. 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 beforehand labored for The Wall Street Journal and extra just lately at The Information, the place he lined the AI financing and the proliferation of knowledge facilities.
Cho’s full memo is beneath:
Team,
I’m excited to share that Ken Brown is becoming a member of CNBC as Managing Editor of Digital and Editorial Strategy.
In this position, Ken will lead CNBC Digital and assist elevate the ambition, distinctiveness and affect of our journalism throughout platforms. He will play a key position in making certain our digital reporting is important, unique and carefully related to the strengths of the broader CNBC newsroom.
Ken will even assist speed up our digital technique and sharpen how we cowl the forces reshaping enterprise, markets and the economic system. From the capital calls for of AI and the tempo of innovation to the resurgence of dealmaking, main shifts are quickly reworking industries. We see huge alternative to deepen our reporting, break extra information and develop our viewers round these tales.
Just as importantly, Ken brings a inventive and collaborative method to the connection between tv and digital. He will accomplice carefully with TV editorial management to make sure CNBC’s best strengths — our journalism, personalities, entry, and evaluation — have a strong presence throughout digital platforms and resonate with digitally native audiences.
Ken is an excellent journalist and editor, with distinctive instincts for figuring out main story alternatives and creating formidable enterprise reporting. His profession has spanned some of the most important monetary, company and investigative tales of the previous twenty years. He joins us from The Information, the place he helped drive protection on the intersection of expertise, finance and enterprise. Before that, Ken spent a few years at The Wall Street Journal in a range of management positions throughout investigations, finance, local weather, markets and international protection. He additionally spent two years on the buyside at Pzena Investment Management.
At The Information, Ken expanded protection of the financing of AI and the expansion of knowledge facilities. 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 led investigations into crypto, the Trump household’s funds, the Mormon church’s huge wealth and the Malaysian funding fund 1MDB, which ensnared Goldman Sachs, Middle Eastern royalty and Hollywood stars. Ken can be an adjunct professor on the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the place he teaches investigative reporting.
Ken understands the subscription enterprise and has a robust sense of how journalism creates lasting worth for audiences — not solely by way of particular person tales, however by way of broader editorial technique, exclusives and differentiated reporting readers can not get anyplace else.
Ken begins on June eighth, and I hope you’ll be part of me in welcoming him to CNBC. We sit up for getting the crew collectively for an off-the-cuff welcome quickly after he arrives.
Dave