• by Ray Schultz , July 11, 2023

Only one day after announcing the promotion of Johanna Mayer-Jones to its first chief advertising officer, The Washington Post has revealed the person to whom Mayer-Jones will report. It has appointed Alex MacCallum as chief revenue officer, effective July 31.  

MacCallum will be responsible for driving revenue across advertising, partnerships and subscriptions. 

Previously, MacCallum created new platforms and business models within CNN worldwide, the New York Times and The Huffington Post. As global head of product at CNN Worldwide and general manager of CNN+, a streaming platform, MacCallum led product, data, design, marketing and business operations that resulted in the launch of a new CNN+, in less than one year. At The New York Times, MacCallum oversaw development of the Cooking and Games products.

Patty Stonesifer, interim CEO for the Post, lauded MacCallum as "a strategic visionary with deep experience in identifying, building and modernizing products and streams of business for media organizations, as well as growing subscriptions.”

In a separate development, the Post has announced the hire of Vineet Khosla as chief technology officer. Previously, Khosla was at Uber as a senior engineering leader since 2018.