CNN boss Chris Licht continued to scrub home on the embattled cable information community, zeroing in on the podcast division.
The community minimize “a small quantity” of individuals in its audio unit because it continues to refine its technique for the division, a CNN insider confirmed to The Publish on Wednesday.
The insider stated eight employees have been fired, coming from the editorial and gross sales divisions.
“Audio is a vital progress space for the corporate,” a CNN rep instructed The Publish. “Over the past a number of years we’ve realized so much in regards to the subjects and productions that the majority resonate with our audiences. Because of this, we’ve refined our technique to focus our assets extra particularly in these areas.”
Licht has been tasked with trimming the fats at CNN and reorienting the community to extra simple reporting versus left-leaning punditry amid declining rankings.
The adjustments come as CNN guardian Warner Bros. Discovery works to shave $3 billion in prices by 2023. Roughly 300 staffers have been let go when WBD shut CNN’s month-old streaming service, CNN+. Different layoffs have come from HBO Max’s non-scripted division and TBS/TNT’s scripted items and gross sales groups.
CNN made a giant push into audio in February 2020 with a brand new management staff and a programming slate that included three new podcasts. In latest weeks, it introduced an Anderson Cooper-hosted podcast on grieving, “All There Is with Anderson Cooper.”
The lineup additionally contains “CNN 5 Issues,” “Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta” and “The Axe Recordsdata With David Axelrod.”
CNN stated no adjustments have been made to the present slate.
Licht has made a slew of daring strikes in latest weeks as he makes his mark on the community. Just lately, he moved primetime anchor Don Lemon to a brand new morning present he'll co-host with Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow. He additionally shifted Jake Tapper to Lemon’s 9 p.m. slot on a short lived foundation as he reworks the community’s primetime lineup.
Different headline-grabbing selections embody ousting left-leaning journalists like Brian Stelter, John Harwood and Jeffrey Toobin.
Information of Tuesday’s layoffs was first reported by Insider.
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