{"id":1040275,"date":"2026-10-02T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040275"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:33:37","slug":"paramount-ceo-ellison-asks-cnn-chief-thompson-to-stay-after-warner-bros-deal-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/paramount-ceo-ellison-asks-cnn-chief-thompson-to-stay-after-warner-bros-deal-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount CEO Ellison asks CNN chief Thompson to stay after Warner Bros deal, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount CEO David Ellison has asked CNN Chief Executive Mark Thompson to stay at the helm of the cable news network after the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The two held talks in recent weeks about a new contract that would keep Thompson in the job but have not settled on terms, the source said. <\/p>\n<p>Editorial independence is a priority for Thompson, who wants guarantees that he would keep wide control over CNN&#8217;s journalism, according to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount CEO David Ellison has asked CNN Chief Executive Mark Thompson to stay at the helm of the cable news network after the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The two held talks in recent weeks about a new contract that would keep Thompson in the job but have not settled on terms, the source said. Editorial independence is a priority for Thompson, who wants guarantees that he would keep wide control over CNN&#8217;s journalism, according to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040302,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040275\/revisions\/1040302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}