WED MAY 06 2026-theGBJournal| Media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, Ted Turner, has died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
Turner was also an internationally known yachtsman; a philanthropist who founded the United Nations Foundation; an activist who sought the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons; and a conservationist who became one of the foremost landowners in the United States.
He played a crucial role in reintroducing bison to the American west. He even created the Captain Planet cartoon to educate kids about the environment.
But it was his audacious vision to deliver news from around the world in real time, at all hours, that really made him famous – once his idea finally took off.
In 1991, Turner was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for “influencing the dynamic of events and turning viewers in 150 countries into instant witnesses of history.”
Just over a month before his 80th birthday in 2018, Turner revealed that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder.
In early 2025, Turner was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia before recovering at a rehabilitation facility.-Excerpts from CNN
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