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Mark Thompson, the British media executive who led The New York Times for eight years until 2020, is among those being considered for the top job at CNN, Semafor reported on Wednesday.

Hollywood's striking actors and writers are slamming the pay packages of media CEOs like David Zaslav and Bob Iger.

Variety reported on Tuesday that Jeff Zucker, the ousted chief of CNN, was looking to buy the network and trying to enlist billionaires to join his consortium. He has denied the report.

Over eighteen months, a battle has been raging inside CNN.

CEO compensation in regulatory filings in March and April have made for a sharp contrast with layoffs and the start of the writers strike.

If Paul Le Vasseur had all the money in the world, he would buy back his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette split-window coupe.

Movie theaters raise prices for big movies. Streaming services create cheaper tiers. How elastic is demand for film and TV?

As Hollywood constantly looks to novel forms of funding, the special purpose acquisition...

Jeremy Sampson says considerations ‘impossible to ignore’

Illustration by Victor Kerlow The conglomerates, whose biggest financial contributors are telecom assets, continue to bet on the benefits of owning content and distribution businesses, but "pure-play" companies have gained investor favor. A Casablanca quote crossed WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s lips during AT&T’s March 12 investor day when touting the benefits of vertical integration, or housing content and distribution businesses under the same corporate roof: “It reminds me of that cla...