2023-08-30 17:05:00
CNN hopes to emerge from its internal crisis. After the resounding dismissal of its boss Chris Licht in June, the parent company of the television channel, Warner Bros. Discovery, announced the recruitment of Mark Thompson. “There is no more experienced, more respected or more capable leader in the information industry today than Mark,” said David Zaslav, CEO of the group.
At sixty-six, Mark Thompson has in fact led two global journalism institutions: the BBC first, from 2004 to 2012, where this Briton had already spent most of his young career, then the “New York Times”. , from 2012 to 2020. He radically transformed the economic weight of the American daily, by tipping it into the digital age and by diversifying its formats, to now display around 10 million digital subscribers. Since the beginning of 2021, Mark Thompson has been the chairman of the board of directors of Ancestry, the world’s leading private genealogical research company.
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