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Ryan Kadro is joining CNN as SVP Content Strategy and Development, a role that is expected to include a new or revamped morning show, according to a source familiar with the plans. Kadro joins the network from The Recount, which he left in May after serving as its chief content officer. He also served as executive…

After more than two decades on CNN and an exposing digital scandal in 2020, Jeffrey Toobin is leaving the cable news network. The longtime chief legal analyst reveled his resignation Friday in a letter to colleagues and in a tweet: Friends, I've decided that, after 20 years, I'm leaving @cnn after my vacation. Was…

Facing a potential Department of Justice probe over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and more legal quicksand, Donald Trump has gone on the offensive against old foe CNN with a threatened defamation suit. “This letter serves as formal notice of the false statements about President Donald J…

UPDATED: Kris Coratti Kelly’s hiring as CNN’s new head of global communications was among a serious of announcements made by CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht as he filled out his leadership team. In a memo to staffers, Licht said that Michael Bass would continue to serve as executive vice president of programming for…

Chris Licht, who took over leadership of CNN Worldwide last month, wants to rein in the use of the “breaking news” banner. In a memo to employees on Thursday, Licht wrote that the network has added a “breaking news” guideline to its stylebook, addressing complaints that the banner is overused. “It has become such a…

Meredith Artley, who has been senior vice president and editor in chief of CNN Digital Worldwide, told staffers on Friday that she was departing the network. She’s the latest executive to exit after CNN got a new corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, and new leadership, with Chris Licht taking the helm on May…

Speaking at the Warner Bros Discovery upfront, new CNN boss Chris Licht delivered his most expansive public comments since taking over from Jeff Zucker, promising a morning show “disruptor” and a challenge to cable news norms. Licht also said Chris Wallace’s talk show, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, has gone back…

UPDATED, with comment from Chris Wallace and Kasie Hunt: CNN+ is on its way out, but the new leadership at Warner Bros Discovery has given every indication that there could still be a future for some of its programming. Much of the speculation has centered on the future of the highest-profile hire for the streaming…

For the past seven years, Chris Licht's favorite comic has been Stephen Colbert. As the new chairman of CNN, Licht's focus has instantly shifted to the brilliant ex-comic from Ukraine named Volodymyr Zelensky, whose heroics are the story of the hour. "Give CNN one great news story and all my network's problems will…

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was sure that Chris Licht was the right person for the job of showrunner of his CBS late-night show when the pair met over a drink six years ago. But Colbert said, "I wasn't sure whether I would like him, whether we would become friends, because we're all show folk here, and Chris is…

UPDATE, 9:09 AM PT: In his first memo to CNN employees, the network’s incoming leader Chris Licht praised the network’s coverage of the Ukraine crisis yet did not get into specifics of what direction he wants to take the network. He wrote, “I know you have a lot of questions. Perhaps the biggest one is how will CNN…

Chris Licht, the executive producer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert who also helped launch Morning Joe on MSNBC, is poised to take over the reins of CNN after the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger closes, a source confirmed. An announcement is planned as early as next week. Puck News first reported on Discovery CEO…