JEFF ZUCKER

CNN cast aspersions on the COVID lab-leak theory in 2020, in part due to then-president Jeff Zucker believing it was simply a "Trump talking point."

CNN insiders tell Fox News Digital that their boss Chris Licht is still trying to woo skeptics at the network who are struggling to move on from the Jeff Zucker era.

Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker was shown the door one year ago this week ahead of a long-planned merger that put the company under the control of Warner Bros. Discovery.

CNN's tumultuous 2022 saw the launch and swift demise of its streaming service, Jeff Zucker's wrenching exit, high-profile firings and hundreds of staff layoffs.

Mary Murphy honored her fellow "So You Think You Can Dance" judge Stephen "tWitch" Boss after his death by suicide at the age of 40 on Tuesday.

CNN CEO Chris Licht speaks about his challenge to change the network and restore a brand he says has been tarnished.

Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins will host the revamped CNN morning show, which has trailed its cable-news peers in ratings.

The first steps toward change at CNN have been slow and incremental — at least until the network cancelled its long-running media criticism show ‘Reliable Sources’ and cut loose its host, Brian Stelter.

Chris Wallace, the most prominent personality lured to the since-shuttered CNN+ streaming service, will host an interview show on Sunday nights on the television network starting this fall.

CNN executives wanted CNN+ to compete with The New York Times. But an unusual series of events doomed the streaming service.

Epic business failures — the Edsel, Quibi, New Coke — have some new company.

After millions of dollars in spending and hundreds of new hires, CNN is ready to launch its CNN+ streaming service on Tuesday.

Chris Cuomo, who was the host of CNN's most popular prime time show, was fired in December.

Chris Cuomo, who was the host of CNN's most popular prime time show, was fired in December.

Former prime time anchor Chris Cuomo on Wednesday asked an arbitrator to award him $125 million for what he called his “unlawful” firing.

Cuomo’s lawyer says that he deserves an apology from the network for making him "the scapegoat" amid a broader controversy.

CNN announced that its CNN+ streaming service will start operating on March 29.

Stephen Colbert gave a heartfelt sendoff to his show's producer, Chris Licht, who was appointed Monday as the new chairman and CEO of CNN.

Chris Licht, who currently runs Stephen Colbert's late-night show at CBS but has a news background, is expected to be named the new president of CNN.

Licht would replace Jeff Zucker, who resigned earlier this month after saying he had failed to acknowledge a romantic relationship with a senior executive at the network.

Under new chief Chris Licht, CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship and double down on the network's news-gathering muscle, top sources tell me. Why it matters: Ratings are secondary to credibility, in the view of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who's taking over CNN.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeJeff Zucker's successor at the CNN helm will be Licht — showrunner of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and a po

CNN's parent company says its investigation into circumstances surrounding the firing of anchor Chris Cuomo and ouster of network chief Jeff Zucker is complete.

CNN's chief marketing officer, Allison Gollust, resigned after a probe of former primetime star Chris Cuomo. Gollust, Cuomo and former CNN chief Jeff Zucker were all cited for violating standards.

Chief marketing officer Allison Gollust quit after the end of a probe of former prime-time star Chris Cuomo. Gollust, Cuomo and former CNN chief Jeff Zucker were all cited for violating standards.

A second CNN executive is exiting the cable news network in the wake of an internal investigation.

The announcement comes nearly two weeks after CNN president Jeff Zucker resigned over an undisclosed "consensual relationship" with a colleague, later reported to be Gollust.

The announcement comes nearly two weeks after CNN president Jeff Zucker resigned over an undisclosed "consensual relationship" with a colleague, later reported to be Gollust.

Mike Groll/APAllison Gollust, CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, resigned from the network on Tuesday, less than two weeks after her boss-turned-lover Jeff Zucker also quit.Jason Kilar, the CEO of CNN’s parent company WarnerMedia, announced Gollust’s departure in a Tuesday memo. He said a company investigation into “issues” related to the recent ouster of disgraced star anchor Chris Cuomo had found that Gollust, along with Cuomo and then-network president Zucker, had com

CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker admitted he was wrong in not being upfront about a consensual relationship he was having with another executive.

CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker admitted he was wrong in not being upfront about a consensual relationship he was having with another executive.

For all the potential peril of a workplace romance, the most common source of trouble, experts say, is allowing it to remain a secret.

Four members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot are “devastated for our democracy” after CNN president Jeff Zucker announced his resignation.

The abrupt ouster of CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker because of a workplace relationship has left some prominent employees feeling angry and uncertain about the direction of their network at a pivotal moment.

Zucker's exit from CNN may ease Discovery CEO David Zaslav's integration of CNN into his broader streaming strategy, sources say.

CNN's Jake Tapper grills WarnerMedia CEO on 'perception' that Chris Cuomo 'blew the place up'

Zucker resigned after admitting to a romantic relationship with a CNN executive. He said it was uncovered during an investigation into Cuomo.

Coronavirus cases are, once again, dropping in the United States. But the virus isn’t done with us yet.

In a statement Zucker said he had wished that his tenure had ended differently but, "it was an amazing run. And I loved every minute."

CNN reported that Zucker will step down immediately, citing a "consensual relationship" with a close colleague.

CNN reported that Zucker will step down immediately, citing a "consensual relationship" with a close colleague.

CNN President Jeff Zucker has abruptly resigned after acknowledging a consensual relationship with another network executive.

Jeff Zucker said in his resignation that he should have admitted to his relationship with CNN executive Allison Gollust during a probe of Chris Cuomo

Kathy Griffin says CNN President Jeff Zucker 'started yelling at me' and fired her when she asked for a raise

Dershowitz launched a fiery attack on CNN's dismissal of Chris Cuomo, saying it would lose if Cuomo sued, which reports say he plans to.

A planned book by Chris Cuomo has been canceled as fallout continues for the former CNN host who had privately helped his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, respond to sexual harassment allegations.

Harper Collins had planned to publish Chris Cuomo's book "Deep Denial" in 2022. Cuomo was fired by CNN over advising his brother, Andrew Cuomo.

A woman who lodged a sexual harassment allegation against former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was “disgusted” by what she saw as his hypocrisy and attempts to discredit women who made similar allegations against his brother.

Katie Couric, in a new memoir called “Going There,” writes of feeling betrayed by Matt Lauer following the sexual misconduct accusations that led to his firing at the “Today" show in 2017.

The memo was obtained by The Associated Press after its contents were first tweeted by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy. CNN offered no details on the firings, or where the employees were based.

CNN has fired three employees for violating its policy that employees must be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

Jeff Zucker will stay at WarnerMedia at least until the AT&T media unit merges with Discovery, sources say.

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour announces she's been diagnosed with ovarian cancer

CNN says the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained the 2017 phone records of a CNN correspondent.

The National Hockey League is coming to TNT.

The NCAA says it had insurance for the 2019 tournament that paid out $270 million to absorb the blow. Teams are now set to spend up to four weeks in an Indianapolis bubble, the site of the 2021 tournament. MediaRadar, an advertising data firm, estimates the 2019 NCAA March Madness tournament generated $1.18 billion in television ad spend for CBS and Turner Sports. He said insurance and automotive are two sectors fueling ads for the 2021 tournament. 20 million TV viewers could tune inUsually, the NCAA Tournament does well on the viewership side, and networks missed out on that, too.

Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the nation's top journalists, says he will retire at the end of February. The Los Angeles Times is further along in its search for a successor to Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine. The Washington Post named Krissah Thompson the newspaper's first managing editor for diversity and inclusion. Kevin Merida, a senior vice president at ESPN and former Washington Post editor, is a name on many lists as a potential hire. The news industry's financial troubles over the past two decades has thinned the usual pipeline of leaders, Geisler said.

NEW YORK – Bob Woodward says he hadn't planned on releasing audio tapes of his interviews with President Donald Trump for his book “Rage” until CNN reporter Jamie Gangel and the author's wife convinced him. “The microphone really is a microscope.”Gangel worked in tandem with Elsa Walsh, herself an accomplished reporter who helps edit her husband's books, to encourage release of the tapes. For a CNN reporter to help push a news source toward a decision that amplifies the impact of a book that is highly critical of Trump may open Gangel to some criticism. But it's an important role for journalists to advocate for public release of as much information as possible, said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who was interviewing Woodward at the conference, also said that “we're all better” for Gangel pressing the point.

NEW YORK Time to cut a conversation with Bob Costas short. The new boss CNN chief Jeff Zucker is calling on the other line. Costas, who ended his 40-year hitch at NBC Sports more than a year ago, this week signed on as a CNN contributor to offer commentary on the intersection of news and sports. My relationship with Jeff makes me comfortable with the whole arrangement, Costas said. But Costas has the hardest time justifying college football, a sport with constant contact, resuming when student attendance in general will be restricted at many schools.

“The others in this space are political talk channels, and so even when they're talking about these stories, they're talking about the politics of the stories. CNN has its share of political talk, especially on its increasingly opinionated prime-time lineup of Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. During the breaking stories, CNN responded by assigning more of its top people, like Wolf Blitzer, to weekend work. It has simulcast the CNN International network overnight in the U.S., Zucker said. The ratings of the past three months proved those viewers still return to CNN when there is important news, he said.

Jeff Zucker's meteoric rise in the media industry may not be over yet. Both Zucker and a WarnerMedia spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Zucker's rise and fall and rise again is media industry lore. In 2005, he was named chief executive of the NBCUniversal Television Group, which was then owned by General Electric. After the AT&T acquisition, Zucker was named head of news and sports for WarnerMedia.