Since January 2013, media executive Jeff Zucker, 54, has been president of CNN worldwide. In that capacity, he is in charge of CNN, CNN International, HLN, and CNN Digital. Previously, he was president of NBC Entertainment and president and CEO of NBC Universal, among other positions at the media company. He also was an executive in residence at Columbia University’s Columbia Business School.
Quote: “When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth… that’s an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.”
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