CNN Fires TV Personality

CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the realization that he'd lost the confidence of the network's journalists. The change was announced at CNN's editorial meeting on Wednesday morning and came just two days after Licht said he would fight like hell to earn the trust of those around him. David Zaslav, CEO of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, accepted some of the blame for the network's struggles as he appointed a four-person interim leadership team. He promised a thorough search for replacing Licht, whom he informed of the leadership change on Wednesday morning. This really caps a tumultuous year for CNN that has seen shrinking profits, programming mistakes and really low employee morale, CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy said on his own network Wednesday. Licht had a mandate to try and make CNN more palatable to both sides of the country's political divide; ...

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