Phillip Tutt
London and Singapore – CNBC International has appointed Phillip Tutt as the Deputy Managing Editor, Digital. Tutt will be responsible for managing the day-to-day editorial content on CNBC.com for all regions outside of the United States. He will manage a team of reporters and producers in London and Singapore who produce international content for CNBC.com as well as the network’s digital products and services, the suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC RealTime iPhone & iPad apps and desktop/mobile service CNBC PRO.
In this newly created role, Tutt will manage the editorial agenda across International for CNBC.com, working closely with the network’s television producers to deliver CNBC’s breaking news, video and web content. Based at CNBC’s regional headquarters in London, Tutt will report to Deepanshu Bagchee, Managing Digital Editor and Head of Digital for CNBC International.
Tutt joins CNBC.com as the site posted its second-best month ever in terms of unique visitors in August 2013. The site was visited by 9.3 million unique users in August, up 34 percent compared to the same time period last year.
CNBC.com’s year-over-year growth was more than double compared to any other site in the Business/Finance – News/Research category top 10 sites (source: comScore US Media Metrix).
In Europe and Asia Pacific, CNBC.com also has one of the most engaged user bases in its category with users spending more than 10 minutes on average each time they visit the site (comScore July 2013).
Tutt joins from The Associated Press, where he was Europe business editor, leading the wire’s coverage of financial, economic and business news. He previously spent 12 years at the Financial Times in a variety of editorial roles.