Forbes

CNN Has More Urgent Priorities Than A Paramount Takeover

CNN CEO Mark Thompson speaks onstage during a Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront event in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery) When the joint U.S. and ...
Los Angeles Times

Fears mount at CNN and CBS News over merger, consolidation

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The New York Times

For CNN, a Change in Ownership Means a Suddenly Uncertain Future

Paramount’s apparent victory over Netflix in securing Warner Bros. Discovery has led to concerns within the CNN newsroom about editorial independence. By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin Once again ...
CNN

‘News will be the star’: Ted Turner’s extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN

Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won. Turner faced an extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN in 1980. Before the ...