Talk:John Stankey

Edit Request
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m submitting these edits to John Stankey’s page to account for some outdated information or other portions of the entry that need clarification or editing. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 22:22, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Infobox


 * Stankey is listed has having a B.A. in finance from Loyola in the Alma mater section, but his degree is a B.B.A. Propose correcting this entry to reflect the correct name of the degree (B.B.A).


 * Stankey left UPS’ board of directors in November 2020. Propose removing “Board Member of UPS” from the Occupation section for accuracy.
 * ✅: did this. Boredathome101 (talk) 05:31, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Lead Section


 * The first sentence contains correct information but leads the article off with his former role instead of his current and is difficult to follow. To avoid reader confusion and for sequential readability, we propose splitting the first sentence into two and revising to read as follows (revisions in bold):

John T. Stankey (born 1962) is an American businessman '''currently serving as CEO of AT&T Inc. and as a member of AT&T Inc.’s board of directors. He previously served as AT&T’s president and COO and was former CEO of WarnerMedia.


 * ✅ (Noting that this has already been done)

Early life and education


 * In the third sentence, Stankey is listed has having a B.A. in finance from Loyola, but his degree is a B.B.A. Propose correcting this entry to reflect the correct name of the degree (B.B.A).


 * The fourth sentence (“In 1985, he took an entry level position…”) may be better suited in the Career section as that position at Pacific Bell ultimately led to his career with SBC and AT&T. We propose removing this sentence in this section and have a recommendation on how to incorporate in the Career section.
 * ✅: did this. Boredathome101 (talk) 05:22, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Career


 * Propose replacing first sentence (“In 1995, after Southwestern Bell Corporation became SBC Communications”…) with the following sentence to add an earlier stop in his path and add clarify relationships between Pacific Bell and SBC Communications. Revised, the first sentence would read as follows (proposed edits in bold):

In 1985, Stankey took an entry-level position with Pacific Bell which was acquired by SBC Communications in 1996.
 * Propose updating the beginning of the second sentence to read “Stankey went on to serve…” to account for the transition from his entry level role to his subsequent role.


 * Propose removing “Inc.” from the mention of AT&T Inc. in the final sentence of first paragraph as Stankey’s roles as CSO and group president were for AT&T, not the holding company AT&T Inc.


 * Suggest revising the third paragraph (“Stankey sits on the Board of UPS.”) to read as follows so it accounts for the timeframe he was active on the UPS board:

Stankey served on the board of directors for UPS from 2014 until 2020. Propose removing “Board Member of UPS” from the Occupation section for accuracy.


 * Propose editing the following sentence (“Since June 2018, Stankey has been the CEO of WarnerMedia which owns…”) to read as follows to account for the fact that Stankey is no longer in that role. Proposed replacement sentence is as follows:

In 2018, Stankey was named CEO of WarnerMedia.


 * Recommend revising the first sentence of the last paragraph for ease of readability and accuracy – proposed new first sentence in this paragraph is as follows (in bold):

'''On April 1, 2020, AT&T announced that Stankey would be stepping down as CEO of WarnerMedia. Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar assumed the role effective May 1, 2020, reporting to Stankey.'''


 * Since Stankey is now in the CEO role, we propose revising the last sentence of the final paragraph to account for that fact. The proposed revision is as follows (in bold):

On July 1, 2020, Stankey replaced Randall L. Stephenson as CEO of AT&T Inc.
 * ✅: did this. Boredathome101 (talk) 05:55, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Edit Request – Career Section
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. We noticed a claim in the Career section that AT&T laid off 50,000 workers in the US in 2021. Though we don’t dispute the fact that layoffs occurred, the 50,000 number is inaccurate and not found in any of the sources used throughout the article. Due to lack of validation, we propose removing the 50,000 figure from the Career section of the article (second to last sentence).

Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration! Jon Gray (talk) 19:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I have instead changed the claim to 42 thousand and provided a valid source for the claim so it can stay.   Mel ma nn   07:44, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Edit Request – Career
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Please let me know of any questions or comments. Thanks for your time and consideration! Jon Gray (talk) 13:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the previous update to the Career section. On further review, we wanted to suggest a couple of additional edits for consideration.

In the third sentence of the second paragraph under the Career section (He earned $22.5 million from AT&T…), we have a sourced figure to provide to replace the ambiguous “tens of thousands” of jobs that were cut during 2020 see below). Also, the latter half of this sentence references jobs lost during the period between 2015-2021. That figure is aggregate of all U.S. AT&T job losses over that six-year span, but Stankey did not take over as AT&T’s CEO until July 2020. The current wording seems to assign responsibility to him for all job U.S. losses that occurred during that 2015-2021 span, but he did not preside over the entire company for the majority of that timeframe.

To provide an accurate figure for jobs lost in 2020, add sourcing for claims where missing and address the 2015-2021 issue raised above, suggest revising the third sentence in the Career section to read as follows:

'''He earned $22.5 million from AT&T in 2019 and $21 million in 2020. In 2020, AT&T lost $5.4 billion and cut 16,000 jobs.'''

Edit Request – Career
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 16:32, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Career

Propose replacing the final sentence of the second paragraph (“In 2021 Stankey oversaw…”) with the following sentences to add sourcing and accurate figures around the sales of DirecTV and WarnerMedia:

'''In February 2021, Stankey oversaw the sale of a third of AT&T’s stake in DirecTV to TPG Capital for $16.25 billion, a decrease from the original purchase price of $68 billion. Stankey also oversaw WarnerMedia’s sale to Discovery Inc. for $43 billion in cash, plus $59 billion in Discovery, Inc. stock. AT&T paid $85 billion for WarnerMedia in 2018.'''


 * ✅ I inserted the paragraph with expanded citation info and some rewording for clarity. MaryMO (AR) (talk)
 * Thank you! Jon Gray (talk) 22:42, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Edit Request – Early Life and Education, Career
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 16:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Early life and education: In the first sentence, it’s stated that Stankey was raised in a Jewish household. However, that information is not in the Los Angeles Times article that’s cited as a source. Without a source to verify that, we propose revising this sentence to read: “Stankey was raised in Los Angeles, the youngest of three children. ✅ (I made this change before I saw your edit request.)

Re: Early life and education: Stankey most likely isn't Jewish (Loyola Marymount is a private Jesuit uni.), but I just had to again revert someone's edit to the contrary. I'm sure we all can guess why anons would want to present him as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xorometros (talk • contribs) 18:35, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Career: The second sentence of the Career section’s fourth paragraph reads “Immediately upon assuming control Stankey drove out creative personnel and initiated regular layoffs among WM personnel.” There is no citation for this claim in the article and it seems to be editorialized, so we’d request that an editor either provide a citation that validates it or remove the sentence due to a lack of sourcing. ✅ JSFarman (talk) 21:46, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Jon Gray (talk) 22:41, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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Edit Request – Career & Compensation
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AT&T. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m suggesting the following edits to clear up unsourced information and improve readability in the Career and Compensation sections. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 21:57, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Career:
 * The third sentence of the second paragraph (”Stankey then assumed control of the newly acquired Time Warner company…”) is duplicative information seeing as his leadership of WarnerMedia is covered in the sentence that follows. I propose removing this sentence to avoid duplication in the article.
 * Propose revising the first sentence of the third paragraph to read as follows for better readability: “After AT&T acquired Time Warner in 2018, it renamed the company WarnerMedia(WM) and named Stankey CEO. ”
 * The final sentence of the fourth paragraph (“As such, in the period between 2015…”) lacks citation and has been tagged as dubious. In absence of a source that can verify this claim, I propose removing this sentence.
 * In the seventh paragraph, the final sentence (“The shareholder action sought to address…”) lacks citation and reads a speculative. As such, I also propose we remove this sentence as well.

Compensation:
 * The claim in the final sentence of this section (“In addition, AT&T executives…”) is unsourced. I propose removing this sentence as well on those grounds.


 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I removed the unsourced claims. Your second suggestion would remove information that has encyclopedic relevance and is well-sourced, that would need to be supported by a stronger argument than readability. Actualcpscm (talk) 17:23, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Actualcpscm Appreciate the review and feedback! Thanks. Jon Gray (talk) 21:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Customer Service
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