It is possible that in his search for CNN’s next boss, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav simply checked back through the news network’s archives. In the otherworldly days of 2020,…
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But there was more on his mind than the next meal. “I like big challenges, that should be fairly apparent. That might come in the shape of another big executive job,” he told Quest. “I’m interested in the puzzle of how you help organizations confront the present and the future.” When Zaslav picked up the phone three years later, Thompson made good on his word. Just weeks after being bestowed with a knighthood by King Charles III, the former BBC director general was crowned CNN chairman and CEO. CNN is, as Thompson once put it, a “big bone to chew on.
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