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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Jeff Bewkes</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG/220px-Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG/330px-Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG/440px-Jeff_Bewkes_2012_Shankbone.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1502" data-file-height="1878" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Bewkes at the Time 100 gala, April 24, 2012</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1952-05-25</span>) </span>May 25, 1952<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 72)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson, New Jersey</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data category">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Deerfield_Academy" title="Deerfield Academy">Deerfield Academy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> <small>(BA)</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> <small>(MBA)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chairman</a> of Time Warner (2009–2018) <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a> of Time Warner (2008–2018)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1982–2018</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer(s)</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Home_Box_Office,_Inc." title="Home Box Office, Inc.">HBO</a> (1982–2002)<br /><a href="/wiki/WarnerMedia" title="WarnerMedia">Time Warner</a> (2002–2018)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output 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style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Margaret Brim</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1993; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2014)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Lisa Carco</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2017)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes</b> (born May 25, 1952) is an American media executive.<sup id="cite_ref-Curr_Bio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curr_Bio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a> of <a href="/wiki/WarnerMedia" title="WarnerMedia">Time Warner</a> from January 1, 2008 to June 14, 2018, <a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">President</a> from December 2005 to June 2018, and <a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chairman of the Board</a> from January 1, 2009 to 2018. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Bewkes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bewkes was born in <a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson, New Jersey</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the middle son of Marjorie Louise (née Klenk) and Eugene Garrett Bewkes Jr.,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an executive at <a href="/wiki/Norton_Simon" title="Norton Simon">Norton Simon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is of <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Americans" title="Dutch Americans">Dutch</a> and <a href="/wiki/German_Americans" title="German Americans">German</a> ancestry, was raised in <a href="/wiki/Darien,_Connecticut" title="Darien, Connecticut">Darien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagLord-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is a graduate of <a href="/wiki/Deerfield_Academy" title="Deerfield Academy">Deerfield Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1974, he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> with a bachelor's degree in <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>. According to college friend <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lucas" title="Gary Lucas">Gary Lucas</a>, a guitarist who went on to collaborate with avant-garde acts like <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart">Captain Beefheart</a>, at Yale in the early 1970s he fell in with "lunatic fringe types and free thinkers". Bill Moseley, another college friend who went on to a career in horror movies like <i>Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2</i>, stated, "I think of him as an artist first and foremost".<sup id="cite_ref-keach_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keach-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon graduation, he "tried his hand at <a href="/wiki/Documentary" class="mw-redirect" title="Documentary">documentary</a> work for <a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a>" before going to <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> to earn his <a href="/wiki/MBA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBA">MBA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sits on both his <i>alma maters'</i> respective advisory boards.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After school, he worked at a <a href="/wiki/Sonoma_County_wine" title="Sonoma County wine">Sonoma vineyard</a> <a href="/wiki/Winery" title="Winery">winery</a> and then took a job in New York City as a commercial banker in <a href="/wiki/Citibank" title="Citibank">Citibank</a>'s shipping lending unit.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagLord-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Bewkes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leaving Citibank, he took a job at <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> then a small unit of <a href="/wiki/Time_Inc." title="Time Inc.">Time Inc.</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was tasked with convincing hotels to subscribe to HBO and then sales director responsible for the launch of <a href="/wiki/Cinemax" title="Cinemax">Cinemax</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagLord-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He rose to become <a href="/wiki/Chief_financial_officer" title="Chief financial officer">CFO</a> in 1986 and President and <a href="/wiki/Chief_operating_officer" title="Chief operating officer">COO</a> in 1991. In 1995 he became CEO of HBO, in which capacity he tripled company profits and "oversaw a fundamental shift in its content, away from just movies and fights and toward original shows like <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sopranos" title="The Sopranos">The Sopranos</a></i>".<sup id="cite_ref-keach_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keach-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, he became chairman of Time Warner's entertainment and networks group. From 2005 to December 2007, he served as the top subordinate to Time Warner Chairman and CEO <a href="/wiki/Richard_Parsons_(businessman)" title="Richard Parsons (businessman)">Dick Parsons</a>. In 2008, Bewkes was selected as Parsons' successor, becoming CEO of <a href="/wiki/WarnerMedia" title="WarnerMedia">Time Warner</a>, and then Board Chair in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As CEO of Time Warner, Bewkes oversaw HBO, <a href="/wiki/Turner_Broadcasting_System" title="Turner Broadcasting System">Turner Broadcasting System</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Line_Cinema" title="New Line Cinema">New Line Cinema</a>, while he oversaw the company's divestment from <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a>, Time Inc. and <a href="/wiki/Time_Warner_Cable" title="Time Warner Cable">Time Warner Cable</a>. In January 2006, Bewkes and <a href="/wiki/CBS_Corporation" title="CBS Corporation">CBS Corporation</a> head <a href="/wiki/Les_Moonves" title="Les Moonves">Les Moonves</a> helped broker the deal that joined the CBS-owned <a href="/wiki/UPN" title="UPN">UPN</a> with <a href="/wiki/The_WB" title="The WB">The WB</a> to form <a href="/wiki/The_CW" title="The CW">The CW</a> Network. </p><p>On behalf of <a href="/wiki/NYC_Mayor" class="mw-redirect" title="NYC Mayor">NYC Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Michael_R._Bloomberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael R. Bloomberg">Michael R. Bloomberg</a>, Bewkes was one of the chairs of Media.NYC.2020, which reviewed the future of the global media industry, the implications for NYC, and suggested actionable next steps for the NYC government.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2016, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a> would acquire Time Warner in a deal worth $84.5 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2017, Bewkes announced he would leave Time Warner on completion of that merger.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2017, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block the acquisition, leaving Bewkes' future with the company unknown, but the merger closed in 2018 after the company won in court and the acquired company now assume the <a href="/wiki/WarnerMedia" title="WarnerMedia">WarnerMedia</a> name.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2020, <a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a> magazine reflected on Bewkes being asked back in 2010 whether <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> had any chance of taking over Hollywood. "His sarcastic answer deserves to go down as one of the all-time dumb predictions, 'Is the Albanian army going to take over the world?'". Within a decade Bewkes' <a href="/wiki/Modus_operandi" title="Modus operandi">modus operandi</a> "has been torched and replaced by Netflix’s subscription-based streaming model", costing Time Warner shareholders billions of dollars in the process.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Bewkes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bewkes, who lives in <a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, has been married three times. His first wife was Susan Frank Kelley, a <a href="/wiki/Law_firm" title="Law firm">law firm</a> managing partner specializing in trusts and estates; they had one son.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> His second wife was Margaret Lowry Brim, a former real estate broker with William B. May Company,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was once a <a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">television producer</a> and an aide to ABC president <a href="/wiki/Roone_Arledge" title="Roone Arledge">Roone Arledge</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagLord-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they had one son.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2017, he married his third wife Lisa Carco, Principal of Square One Communications + Design, Inc., a boutique marketing communications and digital design agency serving clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Bewkes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Curr_Bio-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Curr_Bio_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/currentbiography2010unse/page/33">"Bewkes, Jeffrey L."</a>. <i>Current Biography Yearbook 2010</i>. Ipswich, MA: H.W. Wilson. 2010. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/currentbiography2010unse/page/33">33–38</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780824211134" title="Special:BookSources/9780824211134"><bdi>9780824211134</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Bewkes%2C+Jeffrey+L.&rft.btitle=Current+Biography+Yearbook+2010&rft.place=Ipswich%2C+MA&rft.pages=33-38&rft.pub=H.W.+Wilson&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9780824211134&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcurrentbiography2010unse%2Fpage%2F33&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJeff+Bewkes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jon Lafayette, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/01/12_to_watch_jeffrey_bewkes.php">"12 to Watch: Jeffrey Bewkes"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140107065733/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/01/12_to_watch_jeffrey_bewkes.php">Archived</a> 2014-01-07 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>TVWeek</i>, January 12, 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%202//Canton%20NY%20St.%20Lawrence%20Plain%20Dealer/Canton%20NY%20St.%20Lawrence%20Plain%20Dealer%201947%20-%201949%20pdf/Newspaper%20Canton%20NY%20St.%20Lawrence%20Plain%20Dealer%201947%20-%201949%20-%200834.pdf">"Bewkes-Klenk Wedding Sat, Phoenixville, Pa"</a>, <i>St Lawrence Plain Dealer</i>, August 24, 1949.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LATimesModernMedia-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LATimesModernMedia_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Cieply and Edmund Sanders, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140107164430/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may/16/business/fi-bewkes16/3">"The Very Model of a Modern Media Manager"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, May 16, 2003</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/eg-bewkes-3d-belinda-bowling-marry-in-darien.html">"E.G. Bewkes 3d, Belinda Bowling Marry in Darien"</a>, <i>New York Times</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HANP&p_multi=DTMB&p_theme=hanp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=116FE6E8C5B473DE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM">Hersam Acorn Newspapers Archives: The Darien Times: Marjorie K. Bewkes Obituary</a> January 25, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NYMagLord-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYMagLord_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lloyd Grove, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/news/features/42831">"Lord of These Things - Does sensible technocrat Jeff Bewkes, who spent 28 years rising through the ranks to CEO, have the solution for Time Warner's problems? (And what if there isn't one?)"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York Magazine</a></i>, January 13, 2008</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-keach-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-keach_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-keach_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKeach_Hagey2015" class="citation news cs1">Keach Hagey (April 12, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-time-warner-ceo-jeff-bewkess-cord-cutter-pitch-1428870356">"Behind Time Warner Chief's 'Cord-Cutter' Pitch"</a>. <i>Wall Street Journal</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.atitle=Behind+Time+Warner+Chief%27s+%27Cord-Cutter%27+Pitch&rft.date=2015-04-12&rft.au=Keach+Hagey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fbehind-time-warner-ceo-jeff-bewkess-cord-cutter-pitch-1428870356&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJeff+Bewkes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yale.edu/about/bewkes.html">"Jeffrey L. 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