Marcus Brauchli

Marcus W. Brauchli
Marcus Brauchli in 2012
Born	(1961-06-19) June 19, 1961 (age 56) Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Education	Columbia College of Columbia University, B.A., 1985
Occupation	former Executive editor, The Washington Post
Spouse(s)	Maggie Farley
Children	Two daughters, Aria 17, Zoë 15

Marcus W. Brauchli (born June 19, 1961) is a media investor and advisor. He also is a consultant to Graham Holdings Company, working with the company's chairman and CEO, Donald E. Graham. Before his current roles, he spent four-plus years as executive editor of The Washington Post, overseeing the Post's print and digital news operations, starting on September 8, 2008, and succeeding Leonard Downie, Jr. He was also the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal before Murdoch took over the company.

A native of Boulder, Colorado, Brauchli graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1983. Brauchli was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992.

Before joining the Post, Brauchli was managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. Brauchli had served 15 years as a foreign correspondent, mainly in Asia, and eight years as a senior editor in New York. Shortly after Brauchli's appointment as managing editor was announced, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. disclosed a takeover offer for Dow Jones & Co., the Journal's parent. Brauchli remained as editor through the acquisition but four months afterwards, on April 22, 2008, he announced his resignation. The Post, under new publisher Katharine Weymouth, announced on July 8 that it had hired him.

During his tenure, the Post won seven Pulitzer prizes, including five for the newsroom, and many other journalism awards. A 2012 account in The New York Times outlined signs and reports that Brauchli's "relationship with the publisher has cooled". It also noted that Raju Narisetti, whom Brauchli had brought with him from the Journal as a "close partner...in the digital reinvention of the newsroom", had left the Post in January. The Times also said that "[b]y one important measure, The Post’s efforts are paying off. Recently, it has averaged 19.6 million unique visitors a month, according to comScore, making it the second-most-visited American newspaper Web site, behind that of The New York Times".