TOM JOHNSON is an American journalist and media executive, best known for serving as president of CNN, and, before that, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Times Herald newspapers. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1976 to 1980. In addition, Johnson was a White House Fellow and aide to LBJ and is a long-time member of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation board of trustees and a former member of the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees. He lives and works in the Seattle metro area.