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Warner Bros. Discovery Eyeing Mark Thompson To Take Leadership Of CNN
30.08.2023 - 03:15 / deadline.com
Mark Thompson, the former CEO of The New York Times Co. and director general of the BBC, is in line to be named the next head of CNN, according to multiple press reports.
Thompson would succeed Chris Licht, whose tenure in the top job at the network ended in June, after the publication of a controversial profile in The Atlantic and amid tumult among the staff. An interim leadership team of four executives — Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley, Eric Sherling and David Zaslav — has been in charge at the network since then.
Puck first reported that Thompson would be named to the post soon. A spokesperson for the network and for Warner Bros. Discovery did not return calls seeking comment. In recent days staffers have been wondering if Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was about to name a permanent CEO of the network, after earlier reports that Thompson was in the mix.
Thompson would take charge of the network at time of upheaval across linear television. CNN has seen its audience slide since the last presidential election, and has been eclipsed in viewership by rivals MSNBC and Fox News even in its bread and butter: Major news events.
But Thompson also would be joining the network just as the 2024 presidential race takes off, a campaign that may be like no other given that so much of the coverage will focus on former President Donald Trump’s criminal proceedings.
Thompson would be the third permanent head of the network in the last two years. Jeff Zucker departed abruptly in February, 2022, before Warner Bros. Discovery took control of the network. Zaslav picked Chris Licht, then executive producer of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to run the network. Licht, though, was ousted after just over a year in the
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