Strengthening Our Core: Welcoming Karyne Levy as VentureBeat’s New Managing Editor
I am pleased to announce a fantastic new addition to our leadership team: Karyne Levy joins VentureBeat as our new Managing Editor. Today is her first day.
Many of you may know Karyne from her most recent role as deputy editor at TechCrunch, but her career is a culmination of veteran tech journalism. Her resume includes pivotal roles at Protocol, NerdWallet, Business Insider and CNETgiving her a deep insight into this industry from every angle.
Hiring Karyne is an important step forward for VentureBeat. As we’ve sharpened our focus on serving you – the enterprise-level technical decision maker navigating the complexities of AI and data – I’ve been looking for a very specific kind of leader.
The “organizer’s dopamine hit”
In the past, an editor-in-chief was often the last backstop for text. Today, the role at a modern, data-centric media company like ours is infinitely more dynamic. It is the central hub of the entire content operation.
During my search, I found myself talking a lot about the two types of “dopamine hits” in our industry. There’s the writer’s hit: seeing your name in a great story. And then there’s the blow to the organizer: the satisfaction that comes from building, fine-tuning, and running the complex machine that allows a dozen different parts of the business to move in one powerful direction.
We were looking for the organizer.
When I spoke with Karyne, I explained this vision: a leader who thrives on creating workflows, who enjoys being the leader connection between the editorial staff, our data and survey team, our events and our marketing activities.
Her response confirmed that she was the one: “Everything you said is just my dopamine hit.”
Karyne’s passion is to keep the entire operation humming. She has a proven track record of managing people, running newsrooms and communicating with all parts of a business to ensure everyone is on the same page. That operational accuracy is exactly what we need for our next chapter.
Why this matters to our strategy (and to you)
As I’ve written before, VentureBeat is on a mission to evolve. In an age when experts and companies can publish directly, being a secondary source is not enough. Our goal is to be one primary source for you.
How? By leveraging our relationship with our community of millions of tech leaders. We’re increasingly conducting direct surveys with you to generate proprietary insights you can’t get anywhere else. We want to be the first to tell you which one vector stores that are your colleagues Actually implement, What governance challenges are most pressing for data scientists, or How your counterparts are budgeting for generative AI.
This is an ambitious strategy. It requires a close-knit team where our editorial content, our research surveys and reports, our newsletters and our VB Transform events all work from the same playbook.
Karyne is the leader who will help us execute that vision. Her experience at Protocol, which also focused on serving technical and business decision makers, means she fundamentally understands our audience. She is ideally suited to lead our newsroom and ensure that every piece of content we produce helps you do your job better. She will work with Carl Franzen, our editor-in-chief, who will continue to drive news decision-making.
This is a fantastic hire for VentureBeat. It’s another sign of our commitment to building the most focused, expert team in business AI and data.
Please join me in welcoming Karyne to the team.
