Ross B. Levinsohn is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology.
Introduction
Ross B. Levinsohn is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology. He is the chief digital officer for The Times of London and The Sunday Times and a Sports Illustrated CEO.
He was born in New York City, New York on December 4, 1960.
He was born in New York City, New York on December 4, 1960. He is the son of a Jewish father and a writer, and his mother was an actress/model. He has one sibling: a brother named Jay Levinsohn.
Ross attended Stanford University where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1982.
In 1977 he graduated from Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California.
In 1977 he graduated from Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California.
He majored in journalism at the University of Southern California (USC).
He left after his junior year when he landed his first job at a local television station.
His father was a writer and his mother was an actress and model.
He has also worked in media and technology. His father was a writer, his mother an actress and model, and they divorced when he was young. He grew up in Los Angeles with his father remarrying to an attorney named Marcia Levinsohn (née Cushman).
Levinsohn attended Beverly Hills High School where he played football and excelled academically at the top of his class. After high school, he studied economics at Stanford University before dropping out after two years because “it wasn’t really my thing.
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In 1984, Levinsohn joined News Corp as a television executive. He worked in various positions at Fox Broadcasting Company until 1990, when he left to join Warner Bros. Television. In 1993, he became president of entertainment at 20th Century Fox Television and later served as chairman of Fox Entertainment Group from 2004 to 2006 before leaving to head up Yahoo Media Group. He returned to Fox in 2012 as chief executive officer (CEO) of the company’s broadcast network unit before being named president of the entire corporation in 2015 and a Sports Illustrated CEO.