Ted Turner, the outspoken media billionaire who founded cable news giant CNN and helped transform television journalism, has died at the age of 87.
According to a report by Sky News, Turner died on Wednesday after a long battle with Lewy body dementia, a degenerative neurological disease that causes symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease.
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