Ousted CNN host Brian Stelter gets media fellowship at Harvard

Fired CNN speaking head Brian Stelter landed a fellowship at Harvard, the previous host of the since-canceled “Dependable Sources” stated Monday.

Stelter broke the information on social media that he’ll be becoming a member of the Shorenstein Middle on Media, Politics and Public Coverage at Harvard’s Kennedy Faculty this fall.

“Private information: I’m becoming a member of the @ShorensteinCtr at Harvard Kennedy Faculty,” Stelter tweeted. “This fall I’ll be the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, convening discussions, a few of which can be live-streamed. Grateful to @nancygibbs and her group for the house!”

In line with Harvard, Stelter “will convene a sequence of discussions about threats to democracy and the vary of potential responses from the information media” on the Ivy League college in Cambridge, Mass.

Stelter, who was ousted final month amid sweeping adjustments on the cable information community, wrote on social media that a few of discussions can be live-streamed — taking over an analogous format as his former CNN present. He additionally thanked Nancy Gibbs, the director of the middle, and a storied former editor in chief of Time journal, for the chance.

Stelter was left flat-footed final month when he was fired by CNN boss Chris Licht, who's within the means of re-centering the community’s programing away from left-leaning punditry and towards middle-of-the-road fact-based reporting.

Stelter’s present “Dependable Sources,” which aired on Sundays at 11 a.m., was meant to supply a vital view of how the media lined large information occasions and politics. Some critics stated it devolved right into a present bashing Fox Information, the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal and former President Donald Trump with out taking a vital have a look at liberal media bias.

Brian Stelter
Stelter was let go final month when his CNN present, “Dependable Sources” was canceled.
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Like different CNN reveals, “Dependable Sources” continued to stoop within the scores amid studies that Licht was evaluating whether or not CNN’s staffers might regulate to the brand new mission.

Licht succeeded Jeff Zucker as community president. The disgraced exec resigned earlier this 12 months after failing to correctly disclose a relationship with a colleague.

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