Lawrence Stephen Kramer (born April 24, 1950) is an American journalist, entrepreneur, and corporate executive based in New York City, USA.
Education
Kramer graduated from the
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, commonly known as Newhouse School, is the communications and journalism school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. It has programs in print and broadcast journalism; music business; graphic ...
at
Syracuse University
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in 1972 with a degree in magazine journalism and political science. At Syracuse, he served as the chief editor of The Daily Orange as a freshman, and became editor of now defunct weekly ''Promethean'' in sophomore year. He holds a master's degree in business administration from
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
.
Career
From 1977 to 1986, Kramer served as a reporter and editor for '' The Washington Post''. Then from 1986 to 1991, Kramer worked at the ''
San Francisco Examiner
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Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
'' as an Executive Editor.
In 1991, he founded DataSport. In 1993 he sold DataSport to Data Broadcasting Corp and became the vice president of Data Broadcasting Corp.
Kramer founded
CBS MarketWatch
MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. Along with ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''Barron's'', it is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp.
History
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in 1997. He served as the chairman and CEO, and took it public in 1999. In 2005, Dow Jones acquired MarketWatch for more than $500 million.
In 2006, Larry Kramer became the president of CBS Digital Media, creating and running the new division. In 2006, he signed a deal with YouTube and Apple to put CBS entertainment content on the internet. In the same year, he also transitioned March Madness and The Masters online on
CBS Sportsline
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.
In 2012, Larry became the President and Publisher of '' USA Today''. He retired from that post in 2015 and became a director for
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.