Tracy Brown is Chief Partnership Officer at Chicago Public Media, where she has strategic oversight in building key partnerships with local and national newsrooms, corporate and community organizations, as well as cultivating new relationships with supporters of independent journalism.

Tracy joined WBEZ in 2019 as managing editor to lead enterprise, investigations, daily news and special projects. In 2021, she became Chief Content Officer, overseeing the newsrooms at WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times, along with broadcast programming, WBEZ’s talk show Reset, podcasts, community engagement/events, audience development and Chicago’s urban alternative music station Vocalo.