Merrill Brown

Merrill Brown is a media executive and journalist. In addition to writing for The Washington Post, he launched MSNBC.com and was the website’s founding Editor-in-Chief.[4][5] He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.[6] Brown is founder of The News Project.[1]

Merrill Brown
Born
Philadelphia, PA
Alma materWashington University, St. Louis
OccupationThe News Project
Founder[1]
Known for
•MSNBC.com
Founding Editor-in-Chief
•Court TV

•Montclair State University
Former Director, School of Communication and Media
[2][3]
Home townSilver Spring, MD

Career

Journalist

Brown was associated with The Washington Post from 1979 to 1985, serving as a financial reporter (1979–1982), New York City financial correspondent (1982–1984) and director of business development, Washington Post Company (1984–1985).[7] Prior to that, Brown wrote for the Washington Star (1978–1979), Media General Newspapers (1975–1978), the Winston-Salem Sentinel (1974–1975) and the St. Louis Post Dispatch (1973–1974).[8]

Brown was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1988 to 1991.[9][10]

Launching Court TV, MSNBC.com

Brown was a member of the 1991 launch team for the cable network Court TV. From 1990-1994, he oversaw public relations and the development of the network's day-to-day management structure.[11]

In 1996, Brown helped launch MSNBC.com, and was the website’s first Editor-in-Chief. He was responsible for connecting Microsoft’s “technology wizards” and NBC’s “news hounds,” developing the relationships between MSNBC on the Internet, based in Redmond, Washington, and MSNBC Cable, based in New Jersey.[4] He went on to become Senior Vice President in August 2000 and during his tenure, the company grew to become one of the most visited news offerings on the Internet.[12]

Media consultant

In the spring of 2005, he prepared a report for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which examined young peoples' changing media consumption habits.[13] The report was referenced later that year in a speech to the American Society of Magazine Editors.[14] In 2012, Brown co-authored a report with Larry Kramer, publisher of USA Today, about the future of the PBS NewsHour. The report, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, called on the program to “modernize news gathering production.”[15]

Montclair State University

In 2012, Brown was appointed as the inaugural Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.[2][3]

Board work

Brown has served on the Boards of Directors for GoLocal24,[16] Revenue.com and MedCity News. He is also an advisor to Capture Media Inc., Dstillery, Mixpo and is a member of the advisory board of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.[17]

Previously Brown was Chairman of the Board at NowPublic.[18] Brown has also served on the board of Smashing Ideas Inc.[19]

The News Project

In 2018 Brown formed The News Project with founding partners Charming Robot, 10up, Mark Walsh and other investors supporting the platform, which includes technology from Piano.[20]

gollark: And the AutoBotRobot/Esobot rivalries.
gollark: Also, you need the everpresent threat of PotatOS orbital laser satellites.
gollark: They have poor internet connection, no electricity, and there's all the honey and it's sticky and gets on keyboards.
gollark: You can't write code in beehives.
gollark: And how is this going to incorporate stuff like the apioforms and potatOS?

References
  1. "Team Information". The News Project.
  2. "Journalist Named Inaugural Director of MSU's School of Communication". Montclair, NJ Patch. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  3. "Merrill Brown - Story in a Bottle". Story in a Bottle. 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  4. Mifflin, Lawrie (8 July 1996). "Journalist as Broker in Mixed Marriage Next Week of Microsoft and NBC News". The New York Times.
  5. "Merrill Brown - Riptide". Riptide.
  6. "University News Center". Montclair.
  7. "Merrill Brown on Interactive Reporting, Newspaper Web Sites, and Integrating Blogs into the Mainstream". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2018-12-20. Merrill Brown on Interactive Reporting, Newspaper Web Sites, and Integrating Blogs into the Mainstream
  8. "Merrill Brown - Riptide". Riptide. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  9. "George Foster Peabody Awards Board Members". www.peabodyawards.com.
  10. "PressThink: Special to PressThink: Interview with Merrill Brown". archive.pressthink.org. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  11. "Merrill Brown". MediaStorm. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  12. Mifflin, Lawrie. "Journalist as Broker in Mixed Marriage Next Week of Microsoft and NBC News". Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  13. "Carnegie Publications". Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  14. "News Corporation Announces Intent to Pursue Separation of Businesses to Enhance Strategic Alignment and Increase Operational Flexibility". newscorp.com.
  15. "NewsHour at a crossroads". Columbia Journalism Review.
  16. "Merrill Brown Joins GoLocal24 Board Of Directors". www.netnewscheck.com. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  17. "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  18. Stelter, Brian. "Examiner.com Buys NowPublic, a Citizen-Media Web Site". Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  19. "Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  20. Fuller, Melynda (1 May 2018). "The News Project Launches, Helps Publishers Build Sustainable Models". www.mediapost.com.
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