Evan McMurry
mediaite.com
January 23rd, 2014
According to the Financial Times, CNN let go of more
than forty senior journalists at the end of the year, with about half coming
from sister network HLN, which Mediaite reported in November. CNN stressed that many of the
employees, who worked in the Washington, Atlanta and Los Angeles officers, were
close to retirement.
The move comes as new president Jeff Zucker attempts a redefinition of the network to include entertainment shows,
documentary features, and more.
CNN stressed that it was not depleting its news gathering efforts.
“We’re expanding the definition of news,” a network spokesperson told
FT’s Matthew Garrahan. “We’re not abandoning news by
any stretch of the imagination…there will be more people working at CNN today
than last year.”
[h/t Financial Times]
Thursday, January 23, 2014
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