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WarnerMedia has established a scholarship, internship program and exhibition hall at the University of Georgia to be named after maverick media mogul Ted Turner. The company has gifted $550,000 to the university to create the Ted Turner Scholarship...

Is Ted Turner the real Captain Planet? Best known as the media mogul who founded CNN, Ted Turner is also a conservationist, dedicated to restoring native wildlife in the United States. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/world/ted-turner-captain-planet-intl/index.html...

BLOOMBERG Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida. September 6, 2019 By Dave Merrill, Devon Pendleton, Sophie Alexander, Jeremy C.F....

Washington (CNN) Former Indiana GOP Sen. Richard Lugar died at age 87 early Sunday morning, the Lugar Center in Washington announced. "His loving wife Char, his four sons Mark, Bob, John, and David and their families were with him throughout his short illness in the...

Ted Turner's love of classic movies brought us 25 years of TCM By Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN)It's been 25 years since Ted Turner founded Turner Classic Movies (TCM), something the media titan considers one of his greatest accomplishments. "It's hard to believe it's...

Why Ted Turner and Adrian Grenier hope your holiday stocking stuffers “suck” The CNN founder and Entourage star are encouraging the elimination of single-use straws to reduce waste in the world’s oceans BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN DECEMBER 14, 2018   Last Friday...

For the first time, Forbes 400 members are ranked not just on their total wealth and on how self-made they are, but also on their generosity. Members of this elite club have been scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most philanthropic. List members...

Any list of the legends of American business would have to include the name Ted Turner.  Bold and frequently controversial, Turner was very much a disrupter in his prime. But time and age have put him in a reflective mood, as Senior Contributor Ted Koppel found,...