Ken Jautz

Who is 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.