Ken Jautz
Ken Jautz is the executive vice president of CNN, responsible for the worldwide news organization’s U.S. network and operations.
Jautz graduated from Cornell University, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He began his career in journalism as a local newspaper reporter in Red Bank, New Jersey before joining the Associated Press. He worked as an reporter and foreign correspondent for the AP from 1981 to 1988, based in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Vienna, Austria; and Bonn, West Germany.
Jautz was CNN’s bureau chief in Germany from 1988 to 1995. Among the stories he covered for the network were the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent revolutions in the communist-led nations of Eastern Europe; the 1991 Gulf War; the dissolution of the Soviet Union; and the break-up of Yugoslavia and resulting Balkan conflicts.
From 1995 to 1999, Jautz was the London-based Vice President of Business Development for Turner Broadcasting Europe, where helped launch news channels and programs in several counties and was responsible for the distribution of CNN International in Central Europe. He was based in Berlin, Germany from 1999 to 2001 where he served as managing director of n-tv, a news and television company that operated the first all-news television network in Germany.
Jautz relocated to New York in 2001 to serve as executive vice president of CNN’s business news operations, responsible for the launch of the CNNMoney website and the CNNfn network. He took over the management of CNN Headline News in 2005, eventually revamping and rebranding the network HLN and creating a prime time line-up of talk shows. He was named executive vice president of CNN-US in September 2010, and now reports to CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker. In recent years CNN’s US network has increased its commitment to documentaries and long-form specials, commissioned non-fiction series from outside producers for the first time, and received critical acclaim for its commitment to international and domestic reporting, including Peabody and Emmy awards for coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011.