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Ted Turner, nan media mogul who founded CNN, has died astatine 87, CNN reported connected Wednesday, citing a news merchandise from Turner Enterprises.
In a statement, Mark Thompson, nan president and CEO of CNN Worldwide said that “Ted was an intensely progressive and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and ever consenting to backmost a hunch and spot his ain judgement.”
“He was and ever will beryllium nan presiding tone of CNN,” Thompson said. “Ted is nan elephantine connected whose shoulders we stand, and we will each return a infinitesimal coming to admit him and his effect connected our lives and nan world.”
Turner transformed tv news by launching CNN, and went connected to besides go a prolific philanthropist, founding nan United Nations Foundation successful 1998 and donating a grounds $1bn to nan UN.
According to nan foundation: “Ted’s goals successful establishing nan Foundation were to show nan worth of investing successful nan UN, promote caller partners to activity pinch nan UN, and beforehand beardown US activity astatine nan UN.”
He besides founded nan Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit defense statement that describes itself arsenic “a world information statement moving to trim threats from nuclear, biological, and emerging exertion threats imperiling humanity”.
In 1991, Turner was named Time magazine’s Man of nan Year for “influencing nan move of events and turning viewers successful 150 countries into instant witnesses of history”.
Turner sold his media company, Turner Broadcasting System, which included CNN, to Time Warner Inc successful nan 1990s.
In 2018, he announced that he had Lewy assemblage dementia, a progressive encephalon disorder. Turner was concisely hospitalized successful 2025 pinch a mild case of pneumonia.
According to CNN, Turner is survived by his 5 children, 14 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren.
The decease was besides confirmed by a spokesperson for nan family to nan New York Times.
