Marcus Brauchli is co-founder of North Base Media, which invests in and advises media and technology startups. Its portfolio includes digital media in Indonesia, India, the UAE and Mexico, as well as global brands like Minute Media, Atlas Obscura, and media-tech platforms like Piano, OpenSlate and Capsule Video. Brauchli is a director of Rzeczpospolita, a leading Polish newspaper, and of TNL Mediagene, an independent digital-media group in Japan and Taiwan.
Before co-founding NBM, Brauchli was The Washington Post’s executive editor and a vice president of The Washington Post Co. During his tenure in the newsroom, the Post won seven Pulitzer Prizes. Brauchli came to the Post from The Wall Street Journal, where he spent 24 years as a foreign correspondent and editor with a focus on China and Asia. He was the Journal’s national editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and helped to guide its Pulitzer-winning coverage that day. Before that, Mr. Brauchli reported for 15 years from Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Brauchli is a trustee of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington; a director of aiEDU, a nonprofit educating students about artificial intelligence; and has advised many journalism-related nonprofits centering on local news.
Born in Boulder, Colorado, Brauchli graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.