Hamilton shared the broad strokes of his argument with the Guardian. There, he noted that although he’d used this very self-portrait on the cover of his 1997 Turner biography, he only properly ...

Eugene Scott, a journalist based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute, is a contributing Globe Opinion writer. Decades after creating CNN, ...

Media titan Ted Turner once said he didn’t like to buy anything except land. “It’s the only thing that lasts,” he said in a 2004 interview. The founder of CNN, who died Wednesday at age 87, owned ...

He loved the movie so much that he bought the entire catalogue of movies from MGM Studios and pre-1948 Warner Brothers so he could air them and preserve them. “My favorite ex-husband created Turner ...

Turner launched CNN on June 1, 1980, against an industry that mocked it as “Chicken Noodle News.” His commercial bet was that the news itself, not the anchor, would be the star. By 2012, in a Piers ...

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Ted Turner, who died on May 6, 2026, was bright, shrewd and, most of all, lucky. The cable TV visionary proved to be in the right place, at the right time, to change television and video news forever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ted Turner speaks in Atlanta in 2016. (Ben Rose/Getty Images for UNICEF) Ted Turner, media mogul, philanthropist and founder of ...

I first met Ted Turner in 1982 as a young reporter, fully aware of the fearsome reputation, but also fully unprepared for it. In his office above the CNN campus in Atlanta, with those monumental, ...

Ted Turner made sure CNN would never go quietly. The late media mogul — who died Wednesday at 87 — secretly commissioned a chilling “doomsday video” decades ago that was meant to air only when the ...

ATLANTA — Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball. He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS ...

CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner died Wednesday at 87. Well, scratch that. Those two labels don't quite do him justice. Let me try again: Ted Turner — the founder of CNN, a media mogul, a ...