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Mark Thompson isn’t going anywhere.David Ellison is keeping CNN’s top executive in place as Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery, the news giant’s parent company. The merger will put CNN and CBS News under one corporate roof.Thompson, who’s led CNN since October 2023, told staffers on Monday that he’s staying at the network. His title will be chairman and editor-in-chief.”I’m convinced that from David Ellison on down, Paramount Skydance leadership really does believe in news alongside entertainment as a top strategic opportunity for our new company,” Thompson said in a memo obtained by Business Insider.Thompson told employees he has “real confidence”…

KPMG has a new boss.On October 1, Gary Wingrove took over as global chairman and CEO of the Big Four accounting and consulting firm, succeeding Bill Thomas after an eight-year tenure.Wingrove joined KPMG in 2000 and most recently held roles as CEO of KPMG Australia from 2013 to 2021 and international COO. He now oversees more than 276,000 employees across KPMG’s member firms.The firms operate as a global network of legally separate firms rather than as a single company, making the role of global chair different from that of a typical corporate CEO.Big Four leaders typically spend decades building the…

2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray hybrid sports carGMDETROIT — General Motors plans to introduce hybrid models into its U.S. lineup as sales of the vehicles continue to grow amid inflated gas prices and a pullback in all-electric cars.Mike Anderson, GM’s vice president of propulsion engineering, reconfirmed the automaker’s hybrid plans, but declined to discuss timing for such vehicles, which had previously been expected as soon as next year. “It’s fair to say that [hybrids are] part of the plan,” Anderson, a 35-year GM veteran, told CNBC during an interview. “We’re not tone deaf to our customers. We know what they want…

Gas prices are displayed at a Shell gas station as an airplane approaches San Diego International Airport in California, April 24, 2026.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesVolatile fuel prices and resilient travel demand are threatening to keep airfare high this year. Airline profits will be harder to come by.The Iran war that began at the end of February sent fuel prices to multi-year if not record highs, including for diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, airlines’ biggest expense after labor. Supply scares with the Strait of Hormuz disruptions lasting most of this year and high demand have sent jet fuel prices and…

Elianor Williamson is a 36-year-old living in Seattle. Business Insider has verified Williamson’s income and employment history with documentation. The following as-told-to essay has been edited for length and clarity.I went to school for wine. My major was originally education, but while studying abroad for a year in Ireland, I took a class on global food and beverage, and loved it. I switched majors to global wine studies — a little bit of the marketing world and a lot of the wine world.I was drawn to it because it seemed like a fun, cool, shiny, interesting career path. Salary wasn’t…

Ryan Cohen says the best and worst investments of his life have to do with people, not money.GameStop’s CEO and Chewy’s billionaire cofounder told Business Insider by email last week that nothing has yielded a greater return for him than spending “time with my dad.””I’m still collecting dividends,” Cohen said about his father, Ted, who died in 2019.Cohen launched a “Teddy” series of children’s books in 2022 to share his father’s lessons with a wider audience. He detailed some of them in an email to Business Insider in 2020.”My dad showed me how to trust my instincts,” he wrote. “When…

Zac Owen, a 31-year-old brand strategist and high school football coach in the hotly contested swing state of Michigan, said that it’s normal to drive two to four hours to get somewhere else in the state.The cost of those long commutes is top of mind for Owen and other voters as the country heads into the midterm congressional elections. “Gas prices, oh boy. People are up in arms about gas prices over here. I’ll tell you that,” Owen said. Hearing more about gas pricing from candidates, he said, would help sway his decision.The elections are in about a month, and…

Louie Delaware walks through an open area near his rebuilt home in Louisville, Colo. The landscape includes areas where homes destroyed in the Marshall Fire have not been rebuilt. The costs of adapting to climate-related impacts are part of Boulder County’s claims against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy. Jimena Peck for NPR hide caption toggle caption i Jimena Peck for NPR A new Supreme Court term begins Monday with arguments in a blockbuster case about the reach of state power. Boulder, Colo., is suing two big energy companies, arguing they deceived people about the harms of fossil fuels and contributed to…

I’ve always loved the idea of having a big family home. I grew up in a two-story house with six family members, and it was always loud, fun, and messy.Now that I’m a mother of three, I have a very different perspective on what it actually takes to run a busy family home. After living in multiple two-story houses in the last few years, I’ve realized that bigger isn’t necessarily better in many ways.In August, our family of five downsized to a small three-bedroom duplex in Labrador on the Gold Coast, Australia. Before that, we’d been living with my parents,…

Your next career opportunity could start with your front-facing camera.For some LinkedIn creators, selfies and unscripted videos are opening doors that career updates alone did not — from speaking invitations to a new job.Three LinkedIn professionals told Business Insider that what used to be awkward on a platform where your boss, colleagues, and potential employers are watching is becoming the new norm that those looking to stand out may need to adapt to.Arielle Berlinsky, the Director of Marketing at Movement Strategy, told Business Insider she started posting on LinkedIn while in a workplace where rules and expectations felt constraining, and…