Mark John Thompson is the CEO of The New York Times Company.
From 2004 to 2012, Thompson was Director-General of the BBC and is a former Chief Executive of Channel 4.
In 2016, Thompson authored Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? The book was favorably reviewed by Andrew Rawnsley, who called an “important study” that “identifies many culprits for the destructiveness of political debate.”