Larry Kramer

Kramer oversees the Internet and digital assets of the CBS network as head of the newly formed Digital Media division in April 2005.

Prior to joining CBS Digital Media Kramer founded MarketWatch.com. He first proposed the creation of the joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corp. and CBS and has led the company through its launch in Oct. 1997. He also managed the company through its successful IPO in January 1999.

Kramer joined Data Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 following its acquisition of DataSport to run a Sports and News Division. There he created DBC News, the predecessor company to MarketWatch.com and served as Vice President of News, Sports, & Marketing for DBC. As founder, President & Executive Editor of DataSport Inc. from 1991-1994, 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 Data Sport.

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.