Tom Johnson is an American journalist and media executive, best known for serving as president of CNN during the 1990s and, before that, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times newspaper. From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors. In addition, Johnson 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.