J. Richard Munro, Who Led Time to Merge With Warner, Dies at 93

J. Richard Munro, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Time Inc. who helped create the world’s largest media and entertainment company through a 1989 merger with Warner Communications Inc., has died. He was 93.

He died on Aug. 11 in hospice care in Naples, Florida, the New York Times reported, citing Munro’s son, Mac. The cause was melanoma.

The Time-Warner merger was a landmark marriage within the entertainment industry, bringing together the New York-based publisher of some of America’s best-known magazines including Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated and a Hollywood producer of movies and records. Both companies ...