CNN announces major change to anchor lineup

CNN has elevated veteran reporter Brian Abel to anchor and correspondent, expanding his role across the network’s TV and ...

CNN Shakes Up Anchor Lineup With Major Promotion

The network confirmed the promotion on Thursday, June 18, noting that Abel will appear across multiple CNN platforms, ...

CNN contributor vows to exit if ‘incompetent’ Ellisons and their ‘minions’ take over network

CNN contributor Kara Swisher vowed to leave the network if the Ellison family, whom she derided as “incompetent,” and their ...
New York Post

CNN shakes up morning lineup with personnel change aimed at bridging TV, streaming

CNN is shaking up its early mornings — tapping “CNN Headline Express” anchor Brad Smith to temporarily helm the network’s 5 a.m. ET hour as the cable giant leans harder into its streaming-first ...
AOL

CNN Staffers in Panic as Network Sets Up for MAGA Takeover With New Leadership

CNN could soon turn MAGA-friendly like CBS. Paramount Skydance notably took control of CBS in 2025, and Ellison appointed controversial journalist Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of the network's news ...
Forbes

CNN Has More Urgent Priorities Than A Paramount Takeover

CNN CEO Mark Thompson speaks onstage during a Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront event in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery) When the joint U.S. and ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

How Ted Turner built CNN, the world’s first 24-hour news network

It began in the woods. A kernel of an idea to create CNN came to Ted Turner as he was taking a walk through nature, as former chief operating officer Steve Korn remembers it. Cable and satellite ...