Ken Jautz served as executive vice president, CNN-US [1] A longtime executive vice president at CNN, Jautz was responsible for the network's programming from 2010 to 2013, a period during which CNN commissioned its first non-fiction series from outside producers and received critical acclaim for its international reporting, including Peabody and Emmy awards for coverage of the Arab Spring of 2011.
Prior to that he was responsible for HLN where he revamped and rebranded the network formerly known as CNN Headline News and created several shows featuring well-known hosts, including Morning Express with Robin Meade, Nancy Grace, and Joy Behar.
Jautz, a longtime CNN and Turner Broadcasting executive, has managed several networks, including HLN, CNNfn and n-tv, a German national news channel.
Among 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 dissolution of the Soviet Union; and the break-up of Yugoslavia and resulting Balkan conflicts.
From 1995 to 2000, Jautz worked for Turner Broadcasting Europe, first as a London-based business development executive helping launch news channels and programs in several European countries, then as the Berlin, Germany-based managing director of n-tv, which operated the first all-news television network in Germany.