Richard Parsons, one of corporate America's most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, died Thursday. Parsons, who died at his Manhattan home, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015 and cited “unanticipated complications” from the disease for cutting back on work a few years later.

Richard Parsons, the Time Warner CEO from 2002-2007 who later became to interim chairman of CBS, died December 26, 2024 at age 76.

Richard D. Parsons, an executive who had a hand in untangling some of the media industry’s knottiest dilemmas, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 76.