Google appoints top Washington Post exec as general manager of news

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has picked the Washington Publish’s longtime chief data officer to assist run its information division as normal supervisor, the tech large mentioned on Wednesday.

Shailesh Prakash, who additionally led the information writer’s design, product and tech groups for over a decade, will be a part of Google in November.

“This is a gigantic position, and Google offers him an opportunity to additional pursue his pursuits on the intersection of stories and engineering and to have a profound impression world wide,” the Publish’s Chief Govt, Fred Ryan, instructed workers in a memo.

(Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Devika Syamnath)