Ted Turner: In His Own Words

Ted Turner: In His Own Words

Mountain Outlaw Magazine By: JOSEPH T. O’CONNOR To many, Ted Turner, the adopted Montanan dwelling in our own backyard, is a bit of a mystery, a man who has led two lives. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native cut his teeth on business ventures of near-epic proportions. He...
The Spirit of Giving

The Spirit of Giving

THE ATLANTAN The Spirit of Giving Turner’s Grandson John R. Seydel Recognized By Sierra Cortner, Maggie Dillard, Helena Kontos, Ashton Pike and Phebe Wahl Lovette Russell portrait and Sally Dorsey portrait by Sarah Dorio 10.27.16   Our town is teeming with...
Ted Turner Publicly Endorses Hillary

Ted Turner Publicly Endorses Hillary

Ted Turner: From one billionaire to another, Donald, I prefer Hillary The following endorsement in the 2016 presidential contest has arrived from the desk Ted Turner, the man who remade television and, though the team may have forgotten he existed, rescued the...
Big House on the Prairie

Big House on the Prairie

Forbes Big House on the Prairie By Ann Abel When Ted Turner was a boy in Savannah, Ga., he loved to hunt and fish. After he was turned in to the local police for shooting a squirrel on a neighbor’s property with a BB gun and fined by a judge, he had an epiphany. “I...
Taking over America’s largest private estate

Taking over America’s largest private estate

THE TELEGRAPH By Claire Wrathall July 20, 2016 Like so many tycoons, Ted Turner, the founder of CNN (among other media, energy and hospitality enterprises), is a man of no little property. He owns a staggering two million acres of land, and since 1987, when he...
Ted Turner Receives Forbes 400 Lifetime Award

Ted Turner Receives Forbes 400 Lifetime Award

NEW YORK (June 8, 2016) – Today, Forbes hosts its fifth annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy under the theme “Moonshots — Big Bets for Social Change.”  This exclusive event brings together 200 of the world’s leading philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and...