[6] Stankey received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in finance from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 1985.
[12] In 2018,[13] Stankey was named CEO of WarnerMedia,[14] which owns various media and film corporations, including Warner Bros., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, and CNN.
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar assumed the role effective May 1, 2020, reporting to Stankey.
[24] On April 30, 2021, AT&T announced that a nonbinding shareholder vote had rejected AT&T's executive compensation proposal by a slight majority,[25] which came after reports that AT&T had "lost $5.4 billion and cut thousands of jobs".
[26] After the US government ceased funding the Affordable Connectivity Program, in April 2024 Stankey announced that AT&T would direct $3 billion to address the "digital divide" of high-speed-internet access in the United States.