Christiane Amanpour to Leave CNN After 43 Years
Christiane Amanpour will leave CNN next June after 43 years, scaling back her daily CNN and PBS programs at the end of this year and hosting a weekly CNN show through May. The veteran international correspondent said she is considering new projects and praised the colleagues who helped her report from major global conflicts.
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About Mark Thompson
Sir Mark John Thompson is a British–American media executive who is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, and CEO of CNN. He is the former president and CEO of The New York Times Company. From 2004 to 2012, he was Director-General of the BBC, and before that was the Chief Executive of Channel 4. In 2009 Thompson was ranked as the 65th most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
Everything about Mark Thompson →- Occupation
- businessperson, media profession
- Position held
- Director-General of the BBC
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- July 31, 1957