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 ...
Deadline.com

CNN CEO Mark Thompson Unveils New Strategy With Focus On Digital And Subscriptions, Combining News Units To Serve All Platforms

CNN‘s CEO Mark Thompson laid out a strategy for the news organization, focusing on integrating linear TV and digital news units, and boosting its presence and innovation on smart phones and other ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
Afro

NNPA Employs Mark Thompson as Global Digital Transformation Director

Rev. Mark Thompson joins the NNPA’s national staff as Global Digital Transformation Director. The Rev. Mark Thompson’s illustrious and groundbreaking journalism career, which found its roots in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...