Content Leader · Narrative Innovator
Award-winning journalism, tech communications and content leadership.
I’m Executive Editor of VentureBeat. Across more than 16 years in digital media, I’ve worked at The Verge, Motherboard/VICE, Inman, Popular Science, Talking Points Memo, Xerox, Argo AI, Lyft Rev, The Atlantic Wire, and The Daily.
An editorial life
Carl Franzen leads VentureBeat as Executive Editor. His career brings together newsroom leadership, research storytelling, and experiments in how people create and experience stories.
2009—2013
Launch-era work at The Atlantic Wire, AOL News, The Daily and Talking Points Memo — reporting, editing and building for a web becoming continuous and mobile.
The Atlantic Wire · AOL News · The Daily · Talking Points Memo
2013—2017
News Editor at The Verge. Digital Director at Popular Science. Managing Editor at Motherboard / VICE.
2017—2019
Editor in Chief at Inman, leading a national newsroom, editorial products, live-event coverage and award-winning work.
2019—2021
Storyteller-in-Residence at Xerox, translating emerging research, scientists and applied technology into public-facing narratives.
2023—PRESENT
Head of News and now Executive Editor at VentureBeat, leading editorial strategy and coverage of frontier AI and enterprise technology.
02 / Selected work
01 / AI Video
02 / Conversations
03 / Experiments
03 / Fiction
04 / AI creativity
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05 / Recognition
National Association of Real Estate Editors
2018–2019
Best Drama Short · Editor, Motherboard
Editorial recognition for science and health journalism.
Long Island International Film Expo
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