Ken Brown, one of the most durable journalists in financial journalism in recent years, is moving to CNBC, where he will oversee the business-news outlet’s digital editorial operations and play a role in devising overall strategy.
He will report to David Cho, CNBC’s editor in chief, and start June 8.
Brown will “help accelerate our digital strategy and sharpen how we cover the forces reshaping business, markets and the economy” Cho said in a memo 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 had most recently been at The Information, and before that served a long stints as a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing investigations, finance, climate, markets and global coverage. In different moments, he supervised coverage of Asian financial markets and the Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column. He also spent two years on the buyside at Pzena Investment Management.
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At The Information, Ken expanded coverage of the financing of AI and the growth of data centers. At the Journal, he helped lead the paper’s award-winning work reporting on the global financial crisis and reported extensively on the bursting of the tech bubble,.” said Cho. “He has led investigations into crypto, the Trump family’s finances, the Mormon church’s massive wealth and the Malaysian investment fund 1MDB, which ensnared Goldman Sachs, Middle Eastern royalty and Hollywood stars. Ken is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches investigative reporting.
Brown has also worked at the New York Times, Smart Money magazine and the Washington Post. He attended SUNY Binghamton and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.