Ted Turner obituary (opens in new tab)

One of the great innovators of television who founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and built a vast media empireIf Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane had been made as a TV movie 60 years later, its Kane would have been Ted Turner. Thanks to Welles, the figure of William Randolph Hearst, who dominated the American media world in the early part of the 20th century, is now better remembered for the flamboyant personal life portrayed on film.Turner, who has died aged 87, was luck...