Jim Walton
Jim Walton
James Carr "Jim" Walton is the youngest son of Sam Walton, the founder of the world's largest retailer, Walmart. On the 2015 Forbes list of world billionaires, Jim Walton is ranked at #9 with a net worth of $40.6 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
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In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.
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I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
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We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
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Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
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I am excited and honored to have this opportunity, both as a CNN veteran who has done virtually every job in the organization and as a journalist dedicated to maintaining our stature as the world's most powerful news organization.
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Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
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