CNN staffers in a panic over Paramount takeover — what’s likely in store for cable news giant

CNN staffers are freaking out after learning that their left-leaning network’s owner Warner Bros. Discovery will be acquired ...

CNN chief prescribes calm after staff anxiety over Paramount’s expected purchase of parent company

Shortly after it became known that Paramount was the apparent victor in the competition to buy CNN's parent company, network president Mark Thompson was compelled to send his staff a note to calm down ...

For CNN, a Change in Ownership Means a Suddenly Uncertain Future

Paramount’s apparent victory over Netflix in securing Warner Bros. Discovery has led to concerns within the CNN newsroom ...

CNN Staffers Fear Warner Bros.-Paramount Deal Will Hurt Their Journalism and Network’s Financial Health

Netflix on Thursday said it would walk away from its agreement with Warner, following a revised bid from Paramount that ...
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CNN CEO Mark Thompson Responds To Staffs Concerns About Scott Jennings

I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to say CNN will always be a leftist network, no matter how many new executives are brought in to promise a rebrand aimed at centrists. The ideology is baked into ...

Ivan Watson

CNN's senior international correspondent based in Hong Kong. He moved to the city in the summer of 2014 to focus on reporting from the Asia Pacific region after being based for in Istanbul, Turkey for ...