Mark Thompson đã giúp ổn định 2 hãng tin. Liệu ông có thể làm điều tương tự ở CNN?

ông gia nhập BBC năm 1979 ở vị trí thực tập sinh và từng bước thăng tiến tới vị trí cao nhất: tổng giám đốc của đài vào năm 2004,

gia nhập times co. năm 2012, cải thiện kết quả kinh doanh của báo khi đi theo chiến lược thuê bao đọc báo mạng, hiện nytimes có 10 triệu thuê bao (9 triệu thuê bao chỉ digital)

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Mark Thompson, a former top executive at The New York Times Company and the BBC, was touring wine country (đang đi du lịch xứ sở rượu vang) in the south of France with his wife in mid-June when an unexpected call (cuộc gọi bất ngờ) came in.

David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent, was on the other end with a question: Would Mr. Thompson be interested in taking over (tiếp quản) leadership of the network?

It had been mere days since Mr. Zaslav fired Chris Licht as chairman of CNN, ending a stormy 13-month tenure (nhiệm kỳ 13 tháng đầy sóng gió) defined by declining ratings and sagging (sa sút) staff morale (tinh thần nhân viên). The call kicked off a series of in-person meetings, phone calls and videoconferences that culminated in (lên tới đỉnh điểm) Mr. Thompson’s return to the news business after three years away.

CNN announced Wednesday that Mr. Thompson would be its next chairman and editor in chief (tổng biên tập), starting Oct. 9.

...Mr. Thompson started at the BBC in 1979 as a trainee and ascended to director general, the broadcaster’s top position, in 2004. He ran both the editorial and business operations in that role, as he will at CNN.

He joined the Times Company as its chief executive in 2012, the top business-side job at the organization. He was among a group of executives who revitalized (hồi sinh) the company financially by greatly expanding its digital subscription business (mảng thuê bao kỹ thuật số), which was still in its infancy (sơ khai) when he started.

The Times now has nearly 10 million subscribers, more than nine million of them digital-only. Mr. Thompson left the company in 2020, and was replaced by Meredith Kopit Levien, who has expanded the subscription strategy.