A year later, in the summer of 2016, Mr. Ginsberg, Time Warner’s head of communications, had breakfast with Peter Chernin, his former boss at News Corp. and a trusted adviser […]
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Back to news homeDiscovery and AT&T: How a Huge Media Deal Was Done
Deals are rarely smooth, and an anomaly with Discovery’s share price dovetailed with the negotiations. Discovery’s stock began to inexplicably rocket in February and March to $75 from $45 because […]
After Media Detour, AT&T Confronts Old Problems
“It would have been an amazing merger,” said David Barden, a senior research analyst at Bank of America. “It would have kind of perpetuated the AT&T juggernaut of growth through […]
An Old-School Media Titan Pushes Aside an Upstart
Mr. Kilar fashioned himself as a disrupter inclined to break with the status quo in the pursuit of innovation. He became the chief executive of WarnerMedia in April 2020. He […]
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Group to Merge With Discovery
It’s as if Logan Roy, the fictional patriarch of the Waystar Royco media empire on HBO’s popular series “Succession,” masterminded the deal himself: AT&T has thrown in the towel on […]
C.E.O. Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic
And, according to security filings, a select few are rapidly accumulating new fortunes. Chad Richison, founder and chief executive of an Oklahoma software company, Paycom, is worth more than $3 […]
Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out.
“It’s something that gave me pause and that I thought about, but I would do it the same way again,” he said. “There is a broader good in knowing more […]