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CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship under new top exec Chris Licht
Under new chief Chris Licht, CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship and double down on the network's news-gathering muscle, top sources tell me.
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CNN’s Allison Gollust Resigns After Investigation Into Chris Cuomo and Jeff Zucker
Zucker exited earlier this month after his relationship with Gollust came to light amid investigation into Cuomo's actions.
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Russell Brand’s mocking of ‘very trustworthy’ Brian Stelter goes viral
A video of Russell Brand mocking CNN host Brian Stelter has gone viral. The 46-year-old comedian took aim at Stelter for his recent comments about Joe Rogan’s opinion not being as well-founded as newsrooms such as CNN, contending that “not all opinions are created equal”.
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CNN Ratings Plummet 80 Percent to Start 2022
CNN averaged only 548,000 viewers during the week of January 3, a steep decline from the 2.7 million it averaged over the same period in 2021.
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Anderson Cooper To Host New Series For CNN+
Anderson Cooper will host a new parenting show for CNN+, the upcoming subscription streaming service from CNN, while a current online series will move to the new platform. Parental Guidance with Anderson Cooper, to air weekly, will feature Cooper consulting with experts on navigating the challenges of life as a working father. Cooper’s son Wyatt was born in 2020.
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TV’s Biggest Newsrooms Poised for 2022 Surge in Streaming Wars
If a big story erupted at a random hour not too long ago, executives at big TV-news outlets would typically try to break into regularly scheduled network programming with one of the oldest tools in the box, a “special report.” Now, thanks to a widening fight among TV companies to capture streaming audiences, they have many new options.
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Chris Cuomo Hit With Sexual Misconduct Accusation Just Before CNN Firing
Chris Cuomo, who was fired by CNN on Saturday following an investigation into the extent of his aid to his brother Andrew, is now facing a new accusation of sexual misconduct himself. Debra Katz, an attorney representing Andrew Cuomo accuser Charlotte Bennett, told the New York Times that she had contacted CNN on Wednesday about another client with an accusation of misconduct by Chris Cuomo. Katz did not detail the accusations by the woman, described as a “junior colleague” at another network, but said they were “unrelated to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo matter.”
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CNN announces CNN+, 'most important launch for network since Ted Turner'
CNN is hiring hundreds of people and developing dozens of programs for a subscription streaming service that will launch early next year. The new venture, called CNN+, was formally announced on Monday morning. It will exist side by side with CNN's existing television networks and will feature eight to twelve hours of live programming a day.
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CNN Ratings Jumped 135% in November, Most-Watched Month Ever
Jeff Zucker's network dominated in the key demo and doubled total viewers to within striking distance of Fox News
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White House defends decision to bar CNN reporter from event
The White House on Thursday defended its decision to bar a CNN correspondent from attending an open press event but contended it had nothing to do with the questions she asked. Deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Kaitlan Collins was denied access to Trump’s Rose Garden event with the European Commission president on Wednesday because of her refusal to leave the Oval Office during a previous availability with the president. She and her employer, CNN, said she was barred because White House officials found her questions “inappropriate,” which Gidley disputed.
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CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording of the conversation aired exclusively on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time."
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Morgan Freeman Lawyer Hits Back at CNN, Demands Retraction on Sexual Harassment Story
A lawyer for Morgan Freeman has issued a statement demanding CNN apologize and retract its May 24 story accusing the actor of multiple instances of sexual harassment. In a letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker, Robert M. Schwartz, an attorney for the Oscar-winning actor, claims the article, where eight women have accused Freeman of harassment and inappropriate behavior, was “used to unjustly attack him.” He goes on to argue that the piece suffers from “…malicious intent, falsehoods, sleight-of-hand, an absence of editorial control, and journalistic malpractice.”
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Man arrested, accused of threatening to kill CNN employees
A Michigan man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees, WGCL-TV reported Monday.
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The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened
How did "multiple sources" all innocently feed the same false information to multiple media outlets? The refusal of CNN and MSNBC to say only compounds the damage they caused.
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CNN fires back at Trump: It's your job to represent the US to the world
CNN fired back at President Trump after he attacked the network in a tweet Saturday for representing the U.S. “very poorly” to the world. “It's not CNN's job to represent the U.S to the world,” the network’s public relations team tweeted. “That's yours. Our job is to report the news. #FactsFirst.”
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Jared Kushner reportedly told a Time Warner executive to dump 20 percent of CNN's staff
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner reportedly asked Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg to dump 20% of CNN's staff, due to its supposed faulty analysis in the 2016 US Presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said that the meeting, held earlier this year, took place after Kushner was displeased with the network's coverage during the election cycle.
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Three resign from CNN after Russia story retraction
Three CNN staffers resigned after the network retracted a story tying a top President Trump ally to a Russian investment bank.
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CNN fires Kathy Griffin
athy Griffin will not be back as co-host of CNN's annual New Year's Eve program, the network announced Wednesday. CNN's decision comes one day after photos were released of Griffin that showed the comedian holding up a bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump.
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