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Harris to sit down with CNN for first interview since launching prez bid

Vice President Kamala Harris is sitting down with CNN this week for her first interview since President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid. The Democratic presidential nominee will be joined by her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in an interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash in Savannah, Georgia. The interview will air on Thursday. Harris' lack of access has become one of Republicans' key lines of attacks against her as she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden's July 21 announcement. The CNN interview may be an opportunity for Harris to quell criticism that she is unprepared for uncontrolled environments, but it may also carry risks as her team tries to build on momentum from the ticket shakeup and Democratic National Convention. During her three-plus years as vice president, she has done on-camera and print interviews with The Associated Press and many other outlets, often at a pace more frequent than Biden. The Trump campaign has kept a tally of the days sh

CNN cuts about 100 jobs, to launch digital subscriptions before year's end

CNN is eliminating approximately 100 jobs and plans to debut its first digital subscriptions before the end of the year as the news network leans into reshaping its business. In a memo sent to staff on Wednesday, CNN CEO Mark Thompson said noted that it's cutting just 100 jobs out of a total workforce of approximately 3,500. He said that open roles were closed wherever possible in order to minimise the total layoffs. Media organisations, including CNN have struggled to grow audiences and revenue, and have sought to diversify what they're offering to customers. Thompson said that CNN's digital strategy must be ambitious enough to deliver the audiences and the revenue we need to maintain our unique journalistic firepower and succeed as a business. The executive said CNN will create subscription-ready products that offer news, analysis and context in new formats. He emphasised that there will be an effort to keep users on CNN.com's website longer and finding ways to get them to return

US elections: This week's debate important for Biden, Trump, and CNN

Joe Biden and Donald Trump won't be alone at Thursday's debate. Moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper of CNN will be on camera, too, and there's a lot on the line for their network as it fights for relevance in a changing media environment. CNN has hosted dozens of town halls and political forums through the years, but never a general election presidential debate, let alone one so early in a campaign. No network has. This is a huge moment for CNN, said former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, now a media and public affairs professor at George Washington University. CNN has to reassert itself. It has to show that it led a revolution in news before and can do it again. As a television network, CNN is struggling at a time many consumers are cutting off cable and most news outlets wonder if the campaign will ignite consumer interest. Those that remain have expressed a clear preference for opinion programming. Fox News Channel has averaged 2.14 million viewers in prime time this .

OpenAI in talks with CNN, Fox and Time to licence content: Reports

OpenAI is discussing licensing articles from Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s CNN that it can use to train ChatGPT and also feature CNN's content in OpenAI's products, according to one of the people

Warner Bros Discovery news streaming CNN violates deal, says DirecTV

DirecTV, which also broadcasts CNN, flagged concerns that many of the shows airing on CNN's traditional cable channel were included on CNN Max

Here is how international media covered India's Chandrayaan-3 success

Chandrayaan-3's success has found wide coverage from the international media, including NYT, BBC, WaPo and Al Jazeera. Here's how they covered the event

Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against CNN over 'the Big Lie' dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former US president claimed that references in news articles or by the network's hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as the Big Lie was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of USD 475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency. US District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said on Friday in his ruling that the former president's defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers' minds, that phrase would connect Trump's efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler's genocidal and authoritarian regime, the jud

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure of a year

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; ...

Trump digs in on election lies, insults accuser during CNN town hall event

During a contentious CNN town hall Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020 election, downplayed the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and repeatedly insulted the woman whom a civil jury this week found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming. Trump, returning to the network after years of acrimony, also refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russian aggression and said the U.S. might as well default on its debt obligation, despite the potentially devastating economic consequences. The live, televised event held in early-voting New Hampshire underscored the challenges of fact-checking Trump in real time. The former president was cheered on and applauded by an audience of Republican and unaffiliated voters who plan to vote in the GOP primary, as moderator Kaitlan Collins sometimes struggled to correct the record as Trump steamrolled with untrue statements. You are a nasty person, he snapped at one point. The event also ...

President Biden roasted Fox News, CNN at Correspondents Association Dinner

President Biden roasted Fox and CNN with his humour at the Correspondents' Association Dinner in the White House amid media turmoil.

AI may automate up to 300 million jobs around the world: Goldman Sachs

In a report published on March 26, GS economists predicted that 18 per cent of work globally could be computerised

Layoffs happening and likely to hit hundreds: CNN to employees

Employees at the company had been anxiously bracing for the layoffs since Licht informed them last month that "unsettling" changes lie ahead

Kanye West, Adidas and his long list of controversies: A look at the past

Adidas has terminated its contract with Kanye West, but he is no stranger when it comes to controversies

Donald Trump seeks $475 million in defamation lawsuit against CNN

US Former President Donald J Trump on Monday (local time) sued CNN, accusing the network of engaging in a smear campaign against him ahead of the 2024 presidential elections

CNN lays off staffers from podcast team; set to refine audio business

CNN has laid off some employees from its podcast team as the media company refocuses on strengthening its audio business

Bye-bye 'Breaking News' banners: CNN enters the post-Jeff Zucker era

Licht told advertisers he wants to 'disrupt' morning TV; seeks a more inviting, conversational approach

Inside the implosion of the streaming channel once called CNN's future

Its soon-to-be owner, Discovery, had some concerns about CNN+ but was constrained from directly guiding one of its competitors until the deal closed

Chris Licht appointed as new CNN chief to replace Jeff Zucker: Report

Zaslav called Licht a dynamic and creative producer, an engaging and thoughtful journalist, and a true news person

CNN's Zucker resigns after acknowledging relationship with co-worker

CNN President Jeff Zucker resigned abruptly on Wednesday after acknowledging a "consensual relationship" with a co-worker at the leading cable news network

CNN closes offices to nonessential employees as Covid-19 gains strength

CNN is sending all of its nonessential employees to work from home amid a spike in coronavirus cases, network President Jeff Zucker said in a memo."Given the recent, sudden surge in Covid cases around the country, and within our teams at CNN, Turner Sports & WarnerMedia Studios, as of tonight we are CLOSING our offices to all employees who do not have to be in the office to do their jobs," the Saturday memo says, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal.Zucker said that CNN made the decision to minimize the number of employees in office spaces out of an "abundance of caution."For those still working from the office, face masks will be required at all times, except for eating and drinking, or being in a room alone, the CNN president specified.Up until now, CNN employees were allowed to work from the office on a voluntary basis, but you have to be vaccinated in order to do so, a person familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Three unvaccinated CNN employees were fired ..