Richard Brown joined Wisconsin Watch in June 2024 and serves as our Chief Growth and Innovation Officer. A national media consultant who lives in the Milwaukee area, Brown has served as a contract coach for the News Revenue Hub’s Mission-Driven Advertising and Sponsorships Lab. He is a revenue sustainability coach for Local Independent Online News, an Emerging News Leadership coach for The City University of New York (CUNY), a monthly columnist for Editor & Publisher magazine and a contributing writer for Digital Content Next. He has served as senior director of retention for The Daily Beast. Brown held key positions leading digital engagement, sales and retention strategies for Gannett and the USA Today Network, for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and for LPi Liturgical Publications Inc. He is finance chair of the Milwaukee Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and serves on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation.