Can Mark Thompson revive CNN’s struggling fortunes? The former BBC and New York Times chief has been tasked with revitalizing a news network that seems to have lost its way The Guardian - US · Sep 3, 2023
New CNN CEO Mark Thompson once rescued the New York Times from the end of newspapers. Can he do the same with CNN as cable TV dies? After a tumultuous past few years, CNN has tapped Thompson's proven ability to turn around news organizations. Fortune · Aug 31, 2023
Mark Thompson Named Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide Warner Bros. Discovery brings in former director-general of the BBC and former president and CEO of The New York Times Company to turnaround CNN TV Tech · Aug 30, 2023
CNN names Mark Thompson, former BBC and New York Times executive, as its new leader CNN is bringing in former New York Times and BBC leader Mark Thompson in an attempt to turn around its fortunes The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023
CNN names former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson as next chief executive Mark Thompson led the BBC between 2004 and 2012 and The New York Times from 2012 until 2020 The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023
Former BBC, ‘N.Y. Times’ Head Mark Thompson Named Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide Replaces Chris Licht, whose tenure was short-lived Multichannel News · Aug 30, 2023
The Next Text: Why Trump's X 'Views' Don't Really Matter ... But WGA Demands, CNN, Nielsen's Mushy Metrics, Fox GOP Debates and Google's Bundled, Linear TV Biz Still Do Introducing our new recurring, reactionary, overtly shrill SMS exchange between Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom, focused on the past week's TMT headlines Broadcasting & Cable · Aug 25, 2023
Barbie’s IMAX release brings the Kenergy with all-new post-credits footage As if you needed another reason to re-watch Barbie Total Film · Aug 24, 2023
Cinema this autumn looks sicker, and healthier, than ever The actors’ and writers’ strikes are worrying – but #Barbenheimer showed there’s still a large, engaged audience hungry for good movies The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023
Max plans to add sports streaming but you’ll have to pay more if you want it Live sports and commentary are coming to Max along with content from CNN, but expect them to come with a price tag. TechRadar · Aug 8, 2023
It’s not just Disney—Warner Bros. Discovery lost millions of streaming subscribers, too CEO David Zaslav predicted another year of operating losses at its global streaming business in 2023 as rivals struggle to narrow the gap with Netflix. Fortune · Aug 4, 2023
Ready for a Barbie party on Max? You've got a long wait on your hands We won't be saying "Hi Barbie!" on any of the world's biggest streaming services for a few months yet. TechRadar · Aug 4, 2023
Warner Bros. Discovery Seeing Higher Volume in Upfront Market Company making plans to add sports, news to Max Broadcasting & Cable · Aug 3, 2023
Barbie on streaming: here's (roughly) when you can watch it from your own Dreamhouse Soon, but not soon enough Total Film · Aug 3, 2023
WhatToWatch · Aug 3, 2023 You can't stream Barbie anytime soon: here's why Barbie is the hit movie of the summer, but when can you stream Barbie at home? We got our first hints as to when and where to expect it.
Multichannel News · Aug 3, 2023 Warner Bros. Discovery Cuts Red Ink From Streaming in Q2 Direct-to-consumer subscribers fall by 1.8 million, but average revenue rises
Fortune · Aug 2, 2023 The Hollywood dream job is dead. Did it ever really exist? Maureen Ryan’s "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood" portrays Tinseltown as just another brutal, exploitative workplace.
Capital & Main · Aug 1, 2023 Striking Actors, Writers, Hotel Workers Make the Personal Political With employers stalling, unions seek to build public pressure by spotlighting CEO pay and corporate excess.
The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023 Variety revises article on former CNN chief Jeff Zucker that was sharply criticized Under fire this week for an investigative story on former CNN chief Jeff Zucker, the entertainment publication Variety made changes to the piece on Friday
Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023 Michael Hiltzik: By the standards of their peers, Hollywood CEOs aren't all that overpaid. That's the problem The writers and actors union currently on strike in Hollywood have made a big issue out of the extravagant pay packages enjoyed by the studio heads they're fighting.
Salon · Jul 14, 2023 It's the Logan Roys vs. Hollywood labor SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher has emerged as the strike's early hero. Now it needs a recognizable heel
Los Angeles Times · Jul 7, 2023 How GQ erased its article that was critical of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Within hours after it was published this week, a GQ article that took critical aim at David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, had vanished.
The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2023 GQ removes article calling Warner Bros. Discovery CEO ‘the most hated man in Hollywood’ Article was highly critical of media executive
Broadcasting & Cable · Jul 6, 2023 Plot Thickens on Missing David Zaslav Profile in ‘GQ’ — Turns Out the Mag’s Editor Is Producing a Movie for Warner Bros. ‘New York Times’ culture writer Jason Bailey’s ’GQ‘ story, ‘How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood,’ was inexplicably taken down
The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2023 GQ removes article comparing media exec David Zaslav to ‘Succession’ patriarch Logan Roy Article was highly critical of media executive