jimnyc
05-07-2019, 11:35 AM
I wonder why this can be? And why they suddenly lost so much viewership in such a short period of time - coincidentally, right after the Mueller report was released? :coffee: :laugh2:
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What Could Have Caused This? CNN to Cut as Many as 300 Staffers
CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, "many being older employees with years at the network," according to a report on Monday.
According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, "Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout." Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a "massive brain drain" because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips.
The website obtained an email that Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, shared with staff announcing his departure. "After 21 years I am leaving CNN," Maddox wrote on Monday. "It has been the honor of my life to work for, and then lead CNN International. What a privilege to make a living doing such important work with truly outstanding people."
"I always feel enormous pride when I say I am with CNN," he continued. "This really is a remarkable company. Working for it is real life, amplified. Everything is more intense, vivid, and in the end, so rewarding."
It's also more fantastical, some would say.
Maddox said he is looking forward to "a rest" and expressed gratitude for the "extraordinary relationships" that made his time at CNN worthwhile.
The reported cuts come just as CNN is moving many of its New York operations and studios from the Time Warner Center to Hudson Yards.
Aidan McLaughlin, an editor for Mediaite, tweeted that, according to a CNN source, the cable network is not making layoffs, but "more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program"
A CNN spox tells me there are no layoffs at the network, but more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program https://t.co/Z6bie8WPgi
— Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) May 6, 2019
CNN host Brian Stelter also knocked down rumors that layoffs were in the works.
There's a rumor making the rounds today about big impending layoffs at CNN. A CNN spokeswoman is knocking it down on the record: "No layoffs." There WERE voluntary buyouts throughout the organization, and about 100 people opted for it.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 6, 2019
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/what-could-have-caused-this-cnn-to-cut-as-many-as-300-staffers/
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What Could Have Caused This? CNN to Cut as Many as 300 Staffers
CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, "many being older employees with years at the network," according to a report on Monday.
According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, "Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout." Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a "massive brain drain" because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips.
The website obtained an email that Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, shared with staff announcing his departure. "After 21 years I am leaving CNN," Maddox wrote on Monday. "It has been the honor of my life to work for, and then lead CNN International. What a privilege to make a living doing such important work with truly outstanding people."
"I always feel enormous pride when I say I am with CNN," he continued. "This really is a remarkable company. Working for it is real life, amplified. Everything is more intense, vivid, and in the end, so rewarding."
It's also more fantastical, some would say.
Maddox said he is looking forward to "a rest" and expressed gratitude for the "extraordinary relationships" that made his time at CNN worthwhile.
The reported cuts come just as CNN is moving many of its New York operations and studios from the Time Warner Center to Hudson Yards.
Aidan McLaughlin, an editor for Mediaite, tweeted that, according to a CNN source, the cable network is not making layoffs, but "more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program"
A CNN spox tells me there are no layoffs at the network, but more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program https://t.co/Z6bie8WPgi
— Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) May 6, 2019
CNN host Brian Stelter also knocked down rumors that layoffs were in the works.
There's a rumor making the rounds today about big impending layoffs at CNN. A CNN spokeswoman is knocking it down on the record: "No layoffs." There WERE voluntary buyouts throughout the organization, and about 100 people opted for it.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 6, 2019
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/what-could-have-caused-this-cnn-to-cut-as-many-as-300-staffers/