Talk:Merrill Brown

Career
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). 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). Additionally, he was appointed as Executive Editor for Channels in 1986 and wrote a monthly column.

Peabody Awards
Brown was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1988 to 1991.

Court TV
Brown was the Senior Vice President, corporate & program development for Court TV from 1990 to 1994 and is known as one of the strategists who helped create The Courtroom Television Network. As a member of the launch team, Brown worked on all facets of the network's operation leading up to its July 1991 launch. From 1990-1994

MSNBC.com
In 1996, Brown oversaw the launch of MSNBC.com, and was the website’s first Editor-in-Chief. During his tenure, MSNBC grew rapidly and became the No. 1 online news provider, with close to 50 Million monthly U.S. users. He was characterized as responsible for connecting Microsoft’s “technology experts” and NBC’s "newshawks", developing the connections between MSNBC Cable, which is based in NJ and MSNBC on the Internet, based in Redmond, Washington. Brown established content share deals with such organizations as Newsweek, The Washington Post, Sporting News and The Wall Street Journal. He went on to become Senior Vice President in August 2000 and during his tenure, the fledgling company grew to become one of the most visited news offerings on the Internet. In December of that year, Brown led MSNBC.com to be honored with the “General Excellence in Online Journalism” award by the Online Journalism Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

RealNetworks
From 2002 to 2003, Brown served as a Senior Vice President for RealNetworks and was responsible for RealOne’s programming business, which included programming, subscription sales, marketing, advertising sales and technology. During his tenure, the paid subscribers grew from 750,000 to over 1,000,000.

News21
Brown was one of the founders of News21, an educational effort involving journalism grad students from five major universities— Columbia, UC Berkeley, USC, Northwestern, and Harvard.  He served as the National Editorial Director of the project from June 2005 until January 2008.

Montclair State University School of Communication and Media
In 2012, Brown was appointed as the inaugural Director of the School of Communication and Media at the Montclair State University, where he led academic programs for more than 800 students.

The News Project
Brown is the founder and CEO of a full-service digital publishing platform called The News Project Inc. Formation of the company was announced in May 2018. Brown founded the company to provide editorial solutions for topics and communities that are inadequately covered.

Consulting work
Brown’s consulting practice, developed through MMB Media LLC where he was principal.

Request for Edit
Hello,

I would like to add the following in the lead page, infobox and main body:

Current Lead Page (live)
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. He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.

Proposed Changes
Merrill Brown is a media executive and journalist, who is the Founder and CEO of The News Project. In addition to writing for The Washington Post, he launched MSNBC.com and was the website’s founding Editor-in-Chief. He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.

The News Project
Brown is the founder and CEO of a full-service digital publishing platform called The News Project Inc. Formation of the company was announced in May 2018. Brown founded the company to provide editorial solutions for topics and communities that are inadequately covered.

Reasons
1. The newsproject is the the subject's current company and is being independently discussed by notable online publications.(I have attached the citations for your convenience) 2. The Infobox states that the subject's current occupation is "Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. the lead paragraph in the live page states, "He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University". The current business of the subject is the NewsProject, which should be updated in the infobox 3. Adheres to Biographies of living persons 4. Adheres to WP:SOURCES