Steven W. Korn was named President and CEO of RFE/RL, Inc. on June 3, 2011.
From 1996-2000, Mr. Korn served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of CNN, where he oversaw all operational, financial, technological, and other non-editorial functions for the CNN News Group on a global basis. In addition, he served on the supervisory board of German television news channel n-tv and on the board of CNN Plus, a Spanish language news service based in Madrid. Previously, Mr. Korn served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (TBS), where he was responsible for all legal affairs of TBS and its subsidiaries worldwide.
Following his 17 years at Turner Broadcasting, Mr. Korn assumed the role of publisher of the Daily Report, a legal newspaper, and GC South magazine, both located in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining Turner in 1983, he was an attorney specializing in civil litigation involving media, entertainment and telecommunications issues.
Mr. Korn serves as a director on a variety of public and private company boards and as a trustee for a range of leading cultural and educational not-for-profit institutions, including Brown Shoe Company, Vassar College, SV Investment Partners and Precision IR Group. From 2000-2007, Korn served on the Board of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) where he was Chairman of the Investment and Compensation committees and was a member of the Executive, Strategic Planning, Finance and Budget, Programming, and Presidential Search committees.
Mr. Korn received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Vassar College in 1975, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and a juris doctor degree from Cornell University in 1978. At Cornell, he served as chancellor of the Cornell Law School Moot Court Board and a member of the National Moot Court Team.
