Making his Mark

Former BBC DG and NYT boss Mark Thompson has started flexing his muscles at CNN. Chief digital officer Athan Stephanopoulos will leave the company at the end of January.

Pundits think Mark has set his hat at Alex MacCallum to come back to CNN. She's currently at the Washington Post, which she joined in July 2023. Before that, she was Head of Product at CNN, launching CNN+.  And, perhaps more importantly, she had eight years at the New York Times where she launched cooking and games subscription services.  They grew from 200k users to over 2m in her charge.