Mark Thompson

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  Cruella Movie Review: Emma Stone-Starrer Is a Daenerys in Game of Thrones Final Season Hack-Job Again

  Cruella movie review: Emma Stone’s Disney villain origin story is a hack-job on par with Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones’ final season. Cruella now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

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  New York Times CEO Warns Publishers Ahead of Apple News Launch

  New York Times CEO Mark Thompson warned that relying on third-party distribution can be dangerous for publishers who risk losing control over their own product.

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  Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel Sweep ADG Awards

  Birdman, the dark comedy-drama starring Michael Keaton, bagged the award for Contemporary Film while The Grand Budapest Hotel and Guardians of the Galaxy won in the Period Film and Fantasy Film categories

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  US Charges Five Over Airline Gun Smuggling Conspiracy

  Five Americans have been charged in connection with a plot to sell 153 guns and smuggle them into New York in carry-on bags on 17 commercial flights, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

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  Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Sting at March for Climate Change

  More than 100,000 people marched in New York, including many celebrities

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  McDonald's profit falls, US diners not 'lovin' it'

  McDonald's Corp posted a lower quarterly profit on Tuesday as high beef costs bit into margins and fewer customer visits resulted in a bigger-than-expected decline in sales at the fast-food chain's established US restaurants.

• New York Times CEO says Chinese language site under review

  The New York Times Chinese language website has been blocked in China ever since it published an article in October 2012 about the family wealth of Wen Jiabao, the former premier.

• New York Times head accuses BBC chief of misleading parliament

  The BBC's former director general Mark Thompson has accused the head of its governing body of misleading Britain's parliament about large payments to senior executives, in an escalating spat that has put the two men's reputations on the line.

• New York Times sells Boston Globe for $70 million

  The New York Times Co has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, John W Henry, for $70 million in cash, ending its 20-year ownership of the paper.

• NY Times posts higher revenue on digital growth

  The New York Times on Thursday reported higher quarterly revenue as more people paid for its digital newspapers.

• Mark Thompson takes helm at New York Times, faces stiff challenges

  Mark Thompson reported to work as the New York Times Co chief executive on Monday, confronting challenges ranging from making the publisher less dependent on advertising to trimming costs and figuring out what to do with its pile of cash.

• New York Times in spotlight as ex-BBC chief takes reins

  Former BBC chief Mark Thompson assumed his new role at The York Times Co. on Monday amid questions about whether the crisis engulfing the British broadcaster would spill over to the US news organization.

• New York Times CEO stands to make $5 million next year

  Mark Thompson, the newly appointed chief executive of The New York Times Co, stands to receive compensation of $5 million next year, according to a U.S. regulatory filing on Friday.

• NYT's new CEO Mark Thompson must grow sales, skirt internal strife

  The tasks that now confront Mark Thompson, the newly appointed chief executive of The New York Times Company, are essentially the same ones he faced at the BBC.

• BBC's Thompson named New York Times CEO

  The New York Times backed up its push for a digital future by naming Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, as the paper's new president and chief executive.