Ken Jautz Biography

Ken Jautz is the current executive vice president, CNN-US, responsible for HLN, as well as group operations, business affairs, and the Newsource affiliate service. He is based in New York. He is a longtime CNN and Turner Broadcasting executive, who has managed several networks, including HLN, CNNfn, and n-tv, a German national news channel.

Jautz attended and graduated from Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ken Jautz Career

Before becoming CNN’s bureau chief in Germany, he was a local newspaper reporter and a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press. Some of the stories he covered for the network were the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent revolutions in East European countries; the 1991 Gulf War; the disintegration of the Soviet Union; and the separation of Yugoslavia and resulting Balkan clashes.

He worked for Turner Broadcasting Europe, as a London-based business development executive helping launch news channels and programs in several European countries, from 1995 to 2000. He then worked as the Berlin, Germany-based managing director of n-tv, which operated the first all-news television network in Germany

From 2001 to 2004, Jautz served as executive vice president of CNN’s business news unit during which time he managed the CNNfn network, helped launch the CNN Money website, and managed all business programming on CNN/U.S., counting a few honor winning weekday and end of the week business programs.

In September 2010, he was named the president of CNN Worldwide, by Jim Walton, as president of CNN/U.S. programming. He would be replacing Jonathan Klein. Scot Safon was named as his replacement. He served until 2013.

During his term, the network commissioned its first non-fiction series from outside producers and received critical acclaim for its duty to worldwide announcing, including a Peabody Award and Emmy grant for the inclusion of the Arab Spring in 2011. From 2005 to 2010, he was responsible for HLN where he revamped and re-branded the network formerly known as CNN Headline News.

He also created a host of new shows that cumulatively posted record ratings for the network, incorporating Morning Express with Robin Meade, Nancy Grace, Showbiz Tonight and Joy Behar.

One Night in Berlin
Jautz centered his lecture on a single night from his time reporting for the Associated Press in Berlin during the 1980s. Jautz said that, in his time in Germany, he produced some of the most consuming and fulfilling work of his three-decade career. He listed three lessons he drew from the experience — take risks, be persistent and break out of your comfort zone.

These lessons stem from a dramatic event that he experienced while working in Germany. Jautz said he was present when the press secretary of the East German Communist Party, Guenter Schabowski, announced that the East German Communist party would allow citizens to apply for visas to travel beyond the Berlin Wall.

Working as a CNN producer in East Germany, Jautz said he covered Schabowski’s fluster and the confusion resulting from announcement when confronted by Western journalists, he confirmed to press that the changes are “effective immediately.” Schabowski later relented that much of the conference was a “foul-up” and some of the information he gave was inaccurate, according to The Independent.

When questioned immediately afterward by his superiors in America as to what was to happen next, Jautz predicted that, within an hour, the city would be filled with activity, as citizens, once “prisoners of their own country,” embraced freedom. However, Jautz was incorrect and the network covered the Berlin Wall after traveling over an hour away from the conference, to find nothing.

When questioned later as to what upcoming coverage should entail, Jautz this time predicted that the bureaucrats would remain silent for several days before the story culminated in any action or excitement from the people. That evening, Jautz said he was surprised again as over a million visitors came to destroy the Berlin Wall.

Jautz said he reviled this as a “potentially career-ending mistake,” and evidence of his inability to predict the actions of the German people. Faced with this crushing lesson, however, Jautz said he did not give up, but rose forward, taking more risks and learning from his failures to rise up in CNN and eventually work his way to his current position.

Students said Jautz struck them as introspective and engaging. He was “interesting and hopeful,” Nick Hernandez ’19 said after the speech. “He made me feel better about my first semester here.”

He said the seminal lesson from his experiences is — everybody fails, so one must take risks anyway.

Ken Jautz Age

He has kept his life off the limelight hence his age and birthplace are still under review but will be updated as soon as possible.

Ken Jautz Wife

He is married to  Kristin, a German national who he met while he was in Germany. Together they have two children. He is also fluent in German.

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Ken Jautz Net Worth

The current executive vice president of CNN, has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.

Frequently Asked Questions About Ken Jautz

Who is Ken Jautz?

He is the current executive vice president, CNN-US, responsible for HLN, as well as group operations, business affairs and the Newsource affiliate service.

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His height is still under review.

Is Ken Jautz married?

He is happily married to  Kristin, a German national who he met while he was in Germany.

How much is Ken Jautz worth?

The current executive vice president of CNN, has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.

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According to our reliable sources, his annual estimated net worth is still under review.

Where does Ken Jautz live?

He is currently in New York.

Is Ken Jautz dead or alive?

Jautz is still alive and in good health.

Where is Ken Jautz now?

He is currently concentrating on his career at CNN.