Join Harvard Alumni in Tech’s webinar featuring Marcus Brauchli on the latest trends in media consumption and how the media and technology is expanding to growth markets around the word.
Marcus Brauchli is co-founder and managing partner of North Base Media, a partnership that invests in media and technology companies in growth markets. He serves as an advisor or director of several, including leading news sites in the Philippines and Taiwan, a business-information provider in Africa, and Poland’s main business-media group. Before establishing North Base, Mr. Brauchli was a vice president of the Washington Post Co. and executive editor of The Washington Post, overseeing its news and content operations, including new media, video and digital innovation. During his editorship, the Post won seven Pulitzers. Before joining The Post, Mr. Brauchli was editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he also was responsible for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and MarketWatch. Mr. Brauchli spent 15 years as a correspondent and bureau chief, living in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Mr. Brauchli is a native of Boulder, Colo., and a 1983 graduate of Columbia University. He was a 1991-92 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has served on the boards of the Overseas Press Club, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong, the Knight-Bagehot Fellowships and the International Center for Journalists. He is chairman of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, a trustee of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and an advisor to the Prix Pictet in photography. He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Economic Club.