CNN

Mark Thompson named CNN chief executive and chairman at critical juncture in news network’s history

Mark Thompson, the former chief executive of The New York Times and director-general of the BBC, will be the next leader of CNN, the network announced Wednesday, taking the reins of the renowned ...
New York Post

CNN CEO Mark Thompson to lay off 100 employees as he discloses fresh turnaround plans

CNN boss Mark Thompson swung the ax Wednesday to chop 100 jobs — the first major round of layoffs since he took over the struggling cable channel. Thompson, who has mainly tinkered with the morning ...
TheWrap

CNN Names Mark Thompson New Chairman and CEO

CNN has a new chief executive to replace the short-tenured Chris Licht, as Warner Bros. Discovery announced Wednesday that former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson will take over as chairman ...
Deadline.com

CNN’s Mark Thompson Provides Some Additional Details For What He Calls Its “First True News Streaming Service”

At the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront, Thompson said that the service, which he called “the first true news streaming service,” would include live channels and news feeds and exclusive programming and ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Turnaround Time: Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, is tasked with transforming a struggling network

“If you ask CNN executives about their sense of urgency, they’ll reply: it took ten years for Thompson to enact a digital transformation of the Times, and he’s drawing upon that playbook here.
TheWrap

Mark Thompson Is an ‘Inspired Choice’ as CNN Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age

Former New York Times CEO and BBC director general Mark Thompson steps into a challening era as CNN's new CEO. (Getty Images, Christopher Smith, TheWrap) Ex-New York Times CEO and BBC director general ...
CNN

CNN chief Mark Thompson announces sweeping overhaul of news network, cuts 100 jobs

Mark Thompson, the CNN chief executive appointed last year to modernize the news network, unveiled a set of sweeping changes to the iconic outlet Wednesday, announcing plans to build a billion-dollar ...
The New York Times

Mark Thompson

The service is part of a major push to find paying customers for the network’s journalism. By Benjamin Mullin The network wanted to move Mr. Acosta to the midnight time slot, a backwater in cable ...
Deadline.com

Mark Thompson Named Chairman And CEO Of CNN – Update

UPDATE: Warner Bros. Discovery made it official on Wednesday: Mark Thompson will become chairman and CEO of CNN. Thompson will take the role on Oct. 9. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav called ...
cjr.org

Thompson has digital cred but faces challenges at NYT

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Tuesday, The New York Times named Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, as its new chief ...
The New York Times

Mark Thompson, Former New York Times C.E.O., Among Candidates to Lead CNN

Mr. Thompson, who was also the director general of the BBC, stepped down as chief executive of The Times in 2020. By Benjamin Mullin and John Koblin Mark Thompson, a former top executive at The New ...
c-span

Mark Thompson

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mark Thompson is a Correspondent for Defense in the Time Magazine with 20 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1985 Call-In as a Correspondent for ...