CNN is Mark Thompson’s problem now

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

David Zaslav sent up the white smoke, marking the selection of a new CNN CEO. Mark Thompson comes from The New York Times and the BBC, and has his work cut out for him to dig CNN out of the hole dug by his predecessor - but really, the hole that every TV news operation is in. Puck’s Dylan Byers (@dylanbyers), who broke the news of Thompson’s hire, returns to tell Vox’s Peter Kafka all about Thompson and CNN’s second big streaming play after the quickly-abandoned CNN+. Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.4	in i don't know a couple months I'm talking to Dylan Byers from
1:13.2	Buck News.
1:14.0	Dylan, when were you back?
1:14.8	When were you most recently on Recode Media?
1:17.7	I would have been the beginning of summer.
1:21.2	Beginning of summer.
1:22.4	When they got rid of Chris Licht, the former chairman and CEO of CNN.
1:28.5	So you broke the news that the head of CNN was out.
1:32.0	Tuesday night, you broke the news that the new CNN CEO had been hired.
1:37.4	He is Mark Thompson.
1:38.5	If you are a deep media nerd, that name will be familiar to you.
1:41.6	For the rest of us, tell us who Mark Thompson is.
1:44.8	Sure, Mark Thompson was for a long-time BBC producer, executive producer, executive,
1:54.1	and then finally the director general of the BBC, which is sort of the equivalent,
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