Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Gannett Corp and MDC Partners. He also is Chairman of TheStreet.

Larry Kramer was named president and publisher of USA TODAY in May 2012 and retired in 2015. As president and publisher, Kramer was responsible for developing and executing the long-term strategic vision for USA TODAY across all of its platforms, including the USA TODAY Sports Media Group, the Travel Media Group, Reviewed.com and USA WEEKEND.

Prior to joining USA TODAY, Kramer served as adjunct professor of Media Management at the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and a media consultant and author of C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today, a book on the changing landscape for media and related industries published by Harper Collins in November, 2010.

He has served on the board of directors of Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA), American Media Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Appinions, Inc., BlackArrow, Inc. (Chairman) and Harvard Business School Publishing, The Board of Trustees of Syracuse University, and the Advisory Boards to the Newhouse School (chairman), and Jib Jab Media Inc. ; He was a founding board member and former Chairman of The Online Publishers Association.

From 2005-2007, he served as the first President of CBS Digital Media, reporting directly to Leslie Moonves. He had oversight over and launched or relaunched several websites including CBS.com, CBSNews.com, CBS SportsLine.com and StarTrek.com. While there, he created March Madness on Demand (the web broadcast of the NCAA Basketball Tournament), put CBS TV shows on the web, and created distribution partnerships with Google, Amazon, Apple I-tunes, Yahoo and Verizon for CBS content. He continued to serve as an Adviser to CBS until April 2008, when he became a Senior Advisor to Polaris Venture Partners, a venture capital firm.

Prior to joining CBS, Kramer was Chairman, CEO and Founder of MarketWatch, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTW), also known as CBS MarketWatch, until its sale to Dow Jones for $528 million in January 2005. He incubated the company at Data Broadcasting Inc, in 1995, and rolled it out as a separate business in 1997 with Data Broadcasting Corp. and CBS as the main shareholders, launching in October 1997, taking it public in January 1999, and making three acquisitions to build the business along the way.

He had joined Data Broadcasting Corp. as Vice President in 1994, following its acquisition of his first startup, DataSport. ; As founder, president and executive editor of DataSport Inc. from 1991 to 1994, he created SporTrax, a hand-held sports information monitor.