Around 11 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, June 15, CNN staffers convened in the newsroom on the fourth floor of the Time Warner Center to listen to the company’s U.S. chief, Jonathan Klein, talk about the state of the network. One month had passed since Campbell Brown had resigned from CNN, stoically admitting along Read More
Cindy Adams woke up on Election Day knowing exactly where to spend her evening. There were parties all over town. Lefty celebrities would be out in force. But the longtime gossip columnist for the New York Post wanted to be at the place she felt would be “the heartbeat of the world”—namely, the CNN Grill. Read More
CNN is getting into the comedy business.
Executives at the cable news channel announced today that starting Oct. 25, CNN will air a Saturday night comedy show hosted by D.L. Hughley, in which the comedian mocks the news events of the previous week and interviews the real-life reporters who covered the stories.
The Read More
On Wednesday evening, the Media Mob bumped into CNN U.S. President Jonathan Klein, who was lounging on the front patio at the CNN Grill in St. Paul, drinking a glass of Diet Coke and waiting for a cheeseburger.
The day before Senator John McCain had canceled an interview with CNN’s Larry King. The cancellation Read More
In recent days, Jonathan Klein signed a four-year contract extension to remain as president of CNN/U.S. Accordingly, Mr. Klein was in a good mood as he addressed staffers during a quarterly Q&A session at the Time Warner Center on the afternoon of Dec. 17.
CNN Worldwide, he told the troops, was enjoying its fourth Read More
On Monday, Jan. 10, CNN’s new president, Jonathan Klein, was sitting in his fourth-floor office in the Time Warner Center recalling an adage a former boss gave him about journalistic principles in TV news.
“Jon,” he recalled him saying, “we’re not going to do just anything to win.”
The former boss was CBS News Read More
Wednesday, May 10
Used to be that being the top dog at a high-profile, successful television newscast in New York was enough to keep a newsguy or newsgal happy. No longer. Late last week, WABC news director Bart Feder became the latest top-shelf journalist to flee broadcast television for dot-com land–specifically, the Feed Room, a Read More
