New York Times Co. Taps Outgoing BBC Exec as CEO

Mark Thompson led digital expansion

Nearly eight months to the day since Janet Robinson resigned as the CEO of the New York Times Co., the owner of The Gray Lady has finally found a replacement to fill its top executive position. Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC and chairman of BBC Worldwide, will become president and CEO of the New York Times Co., the company announced today.

Thompson, 55, first joined the BBC in 1979 as a production trainee and, apart from a brief stint as CEO of Britain’s Channel 4 from 2002 to 2004, spent the entirety of his career at the U.K.

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