 Verizon Communication Inc media chief Marni Walden confirmed on Tuesday she had decided to leave the telecommunications company next year after it became clear she would not become its next chief executive. Walden, executive vice president and president of global media, also said at a Fortune conference in Washington that her planned departure, announced last week, had nothing to do with Verizon's earlier announcement that a data breach at Yahoo affected 3 billion accounts, three times what the company said in December. Walden, the company?s top-ranking female executive, played a big role in Verizon?s acquisition of Yahoo and its merger with AOL to create the Oath unit.
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