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1. October 22, 2012 06:20 PM

   ‘Hi, Mark!’

   The Newspaper Guild welcomes The New York Times's new CEO

   By Sara Morrison

   Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there to greet him: The guild has been in negotiations with NYT management since the union contract expired over 18 months ago, and relations between the sides have only become more acrimonious. Last February, guild members lined the hallways outside the...

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2. August 16, 2012 05:48 PM

   In NYT’s search for transformation, Thompson a surprising choice

   "If Thompson manages more than failure, it will, in some ways, be an astonishing achievement"

   By Emily Bell

   Is Mark Thompson the right person to be chief executive of The New York Times? The cynical might note that, as he likely arrived at the building in a town car rather than a Batmobile, and with no discernible cape, he is unlikely to be the perfect fit for a company which requires not so much management as miraculous reincarnation....

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3. November 15, 2012 03:00 PM

   Letter from a Londoner

   The BBC is in crisis. Should you care?

   By Hazel Sheffield

   This week, the BBC celebrates its 90th birthday. As birthdays go, it’s a rather unhappy one. In the last month, reports of scandal wracking the BBC have appeared in publications across the globe, each struggling to distill the absurdities of a historical culture of pedophilia and abuse that infiltrated Britain’s treasured public broadcaster. (Emily Bell has one of the best...

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4. August 16, 2012 04:45 PM

   Thompson has digital cred but faces challenges at NYT

   The former BBC director general was hired to guide the Times to a cross-platform future

   By Hazel Sheffield

   On Tuesday, The New York Times named Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, as its new chief executive officer. Thompson starts in November. In the announcement, Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said that Thompson was the man to guide the Times into a digital future, with increasing focus on cross-platform content. “We have people who...

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5. November 11, 2012 12:09 PM

   What’s happening at the BBC

   The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence

   By Emily Bell

   “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest A very British crisis needs a very British epigraph. The BBC has lost not one, but two directors general in the space of three months. The first, Mark Thompson, left the Corporation under what seemed like...

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