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Former CNN host Brian Stelter has announced his next immediate move: He will be a fall 2022 fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Stelter will hold discussions on the threats to democracy and the “range of potential responses from the news media,” according to the…

News junkies this week are agitated over the disappearance of CNN's Reliable Sources, but cable news network chiefs have a deeper concern: the disappearance of reliable anchors. Ratings of news shows continue to plunge as programmers struggle to figure out what sort of host (and ideology) would appeal to their once…

The final episode of Reliable Sources on Sunday drew an average of 769,000 total viewers and 105,000 in adults 25-54, according to Nielsen. That was an increase in the show’s numbers from the previous week, and was the most watched show on CNN on Sunday, according to Nielsen. Fox News’ MediaBuzz, hosted by Howard…

Brian Stelter signed off from CNN on Sunday with the final edition of Reliable Sources, telling viewers that “CNN must remain strong,” while his guests warned throughout the hour of the threats facing the media and democracy. “I know it’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” Stelter said…

CNN’s chairman and CEO Chris Licht told anxious staffers Friday that more changes are coming to CNN, as he addressed the news of Brian Stelter’s exit following the cancellation of his Sunday show Reliable Sources. According to sources who were present, Licht told CNN employees at Friday's well-attended editorial…

UPDATE, Thursday PM: After the announcement that CNN was canceling Reliable Sources and that its host, Brian Stelter, was leaving them network, it was not immediately clear what would happen with the Reliable Sources newsletter. Oliver Darcy wrote on Thursday evening that, after a summer break, the newsletter would…

CNN+ will be discontinued on Thursday, two days earlier than was initially announced last week. An email to subscribers pegged the end date as April 28, according to The Verge, and a support page on CNN.com also said that the service will discontinued then. “After April 28, 2022, the CNN+ daily and weekly shows…

UPDATED, with comment from Project Veritas: A federal judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit filed by Project Veritas against CNN, concluding that an on-air statement made about the conservative group did not rise to the level of an actionable claim. Last year, Project Veritas, known for its “sting” operations…

CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter will host a daily version of Reliable Sources for CNN+, the upcoming subscription service set to debut this spring. Reliable Sources Daily will examine the world of media, politics and entertainment, as Stelter has done on his weekly Sunday CNN show, podcast and daily…

Amid the latest surge in Covid-19 cases, CNN is closing all of its offices to employees who are not required to be there to do their jobs, in a signal of a “return to 2020” when it comes to pandemic protocols. CNN President Jeff Zucker announced the new policy in a memo to employees on Saturday. It also applies to…

UPDATED with Fox News’ response: There are certain things that are reliable in the world. Old Faithful. Big Ben. And Robert De Niro having a few choice words for President Donald Trump. Today on CNN's Reliable Sources, De Niro was at it again. The man who cursed Trump from the Tonys stage and said he’d like to punch…

One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, has acquired North American rights to an as-yet-untitled book by CNN’s Brian Stelter that will examine the relationship between Fox News and President Donald Trump, the publisher announced today. The book will be published in 2020…