Ted

Ted Turner, the brash media entrepreneur who remade television journalism by launching CNN in 1980, has died at 87, the network announced. The mustachioed Southerner, a passionate yachtsman and prominent philanthropist, had been living with Lewy Body Dementia, a degenerative disease. His business reach extended well beyond news and into sports clubs and other ventures. Cable News Network shattered the conventions of broadcast journalism with its commitment to round-the-clock coverage, then vaulted to worldwide prominence…