Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer is president of CBS Digital Media, overseeing CBS.com, CBS Sportsline.com, CBSNews.com and UPN.com. 

He was the founder, chairman and CEO of CBS MarketWatch, Inc. (now Dow Jones' MarketWatch).  He has served on the board of directors since the company was founded in 1997 and has been chairman of the board since 1999.

Kramer proposed the creation of the joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corporation and CBS and led the company through its launch in October 1997. He also managed the company through its successful IPO in January 1999, three acquisitions and the ultimate sale of the company to Dow Jones in January 2005 for $520 million in cash.

He joined Data Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 following its acquisition of his startup company, DataSport. At DBC he served as vice president of News, Sports and Marketing and created a Sports and News Division, including DBC News, the predecessor company to MarketWatch, Inc.

As founder, president & executive editor of DataSport Inc. from 1991 to 1994, he created SporTrax, a hand-held sports information monitor, launched under a marketing agreement with The Sporting News.

Prior to founding DataSport, Kramer spent more than 20 years in journalism as a reporter and editor. He started his career in 1974 as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. In 1977 he became a financial reporter for The Washington Post. In 1980 the Post promoted him to executive editor of The Trenton (NJ) Times. In 1982 he returned to the Post to serve first as assistant to executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee and later as assistant managing editor and metro editor. In 1986 he returned to the San Francisco Examiner as executive editor. In 1991 he left the Examiner to start DataSport.

During his distinguished career in the newspaper business, he has won a National Press Club Award, Gerald E. Loeb Award and Associated Press Awards for reporting. His staffs have won the Pulitzer Prize, Overseas Press Club Award, Seldon Ring Investigative Reporting Award and National Headliners Award. In 2000, he was named to the list of the 100 most influential business journalists of the 20th century. In 2004 he was awarded the Editor & Publisher Magazine annual lifetime EPPY award for Outstanding Individual Achievement.

Kramer was guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School for 10 years, and has lectured at several other universities, including Syracuse, NYU, University of California-Berkeley and Miami of Ohio.

He holds a MBA degree from Harvard and a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and Political Science from Syracuse University.

He was a committee chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize jury for a two-year term in 1987 and 1988. Kramer was a founding board member of the Online Publishers Association in 2001. He was elected chairman of the board of directors of OPA in 2004 and reelected for a second one-year term for 2005.

He is married to Myla Lerner. They have two children, Matthew and Erika, and reside in Tiburon, California.

Larry Kramer joined the board of directors of Answers Corporation (formerly GuruNet) on May 10, 2005.