Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a...

Ted Turner, the businessman who transformed global television news by launching CNN, died Wednesday at the age of 87, according to a statement issued by Turner Enterprises.

Few media tycoons had a more tumultuous and varied career, or pursued their passions more publicly, than the man whose nicknames included Captain Outrageous and The Mouth of the South.