On Wednesday, CNN named former BBC and New York Times head Mark Thompson as its new chief executive in hopes of breathing life into the struggling media company.
While Thompson has accomplished a great deal during his decades-long career, he has also faced a fair amount of controversy. Most notably, at the tail end of his 8-year stint at the British state broadcaster, he became embroiled in a scandal after the network nixed a segment about an investigation into longtime presenter and accused pedophile Jimmy Savile.