Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news
Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Enter a new generation of online reporters…
September 2023
Can Mark Thompson revive CNN’s struggling fortunes?
The former BBC and New York Times chief has been tasked with revitalizing a news network that seems to have lost its way
August 2023
CNN names Mark Thompson, ex-BBC director general, new chief executive
Thompson, 66, top executive at New York Times between 2012 and 2020, tasked with reviving network’s sagging ratings
February 2021
The New European bought by consortium including ex-BBC boss
Investors in anti-Brexit weekly include Mark Thompson and former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber
July 2020
Mark Thompson steps down as chief executive of New York Times
Former BBC boss says news outlets need to fully embrace the internet to survive
November 2019
The Guardian view on His Dark Materials on the BBC: a perfect match
Editorial: The lavish pleasures of the new TV adaptation should not blind us to the dangers that lie ahead for public service broadcasters
September 2019
Former BBC boss says UK faces ‘total loss of culture sovereignty’
Mark Thompson warns firms such as Netflix will dominate media unless government acts
August 2018
'Just use cat videos': New York Times boss wants Facebook to cut out news
Mark Thompson warns social media giant’s quality ranking promises a ‘controlled society’
September 2017
Mark Thompson: ‘A second Brexit referendum risks seeming like a stab in the back by the elite’
Last year the New York Times CEO and ex-BBC boss published a book lamenting the decline in political discourse. With the advent of Brexit and Trump, he’s had to write a new chapter…
October 2016
Greenslade
Another Sulzberger is lined up to head the New York Times
Arthur Gregg set to be the fifth generation of his family to run the newspaper after being appointed as its deputy publisher
September 2016
Book of the day
Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong With the Language of Politics? by Mark Thompson – review
This important study by the New York Times chief executive and former BBC boss identifies many culprits for the destructiveness of political debate
August 2016
BBC should have tried to keep Jeremy Clarkson, says ex-director general
Former Top Gear presenter could be a ‘deeply objectionable character’ but he spoke to people the BBC does not otherwise reach, says Mark Thompson
June 2016
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Charging money to go ad-free? The New York Times meets the BBC
Peter Preston
Former corporation man Mark Thompson has hit on a new, yet strikingly familiar, formula for revenues in the digital age
April 2016
New York Times to invest $50m on global digital expansion
Publisher sees opportunity for the NYT to become an ‘indispensable leader in global news and opinion’ over the next three years
March 2016
Greenslade
Tom Stoppard to deliver Charles Wheeler lecture at award ceremony
Media Monkey
Media Monkey: House of Cards, Line of Duty and Kirsty Wark
February 2016
BBC bosses still trying to cover tracks over Savile in 2012, says Andy Kershaw
Former Radio 1 DJ believes senior management knew of Savile rumours and their decision to axe Newsnight exposé was attempt to bury story
December 2015
The BBC licence fee and political interference
Former BBC chief attacks secret government licence fee deal
June 2015
Book of the day
This New Noise review – an excellent and insightful history of the BBC
Charlotte Higgins’s history of the BBC tells of a turbulent past. Where does the corporation stand now and what of the future?
