A military judge has ordered CNN and CBS to turn over unaired footage of interviews with a Naval Academy midshipman who was the alleged victim of sexual assault at an off-campus party in 2012.
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CNN.com General Manager Kenneth “KC” Estenson is bullish about the future, but he has a big problem with one part of the media options today: the “second screen,” in which a device like a phone or tablet augments people’s TV-watching activity on the big screen. “In general, I think the second-screen experiences suck,” Estenson says.
After almost a year of tinkering, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker has concluded that a news channel cannot subsist on news alone. So he’s planning much broader changes for the network — including a primetime shakeup that’s likely to make CNN traditionalists cringe.
Images taken by CNN journalists showing ‘scenes from the field’ will be shared via its new online platform, to engage with their community beyond traditional reporting.
In addition to hosting CNN’s Sunday media magazine show, former New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter also will serve as a senior correspondent reporting on media and entertainment news for CNN Worldwide throughout the week.
CNN is in advanced negotiations with New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter, people close to the situation say. Stelter, who has covered the television news and entertainment industry for the Times since 2007, would do the same for the cable news channel and is also expected to host the Sunday morning media magazine show Reliable Sources, a position that has been vacant since Howard Kurtz left for Fox News earlier this year.
Despite ongoing coverage of the health care hearings, CNN pulled in its lowest primetime ratings in more than a year — approaching record lows from summer 2012 — and falling below HLN and CNBC.
The Republican National Committee today voted to ban CNN and NBC from hosting Republican presidential primary debates in 2016 in retaliation for their plans to air Hillary Clinton related programs.
Jeff Zucker, president of CNN, speaking at Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech conference: “We don’t care what screen you are watching CNN on, as long as you can see the red logo on whatever screen you are using to access us. And to us, mobile is probably the most important part of our future, but digital as a whole is where we’re concentrating everything.”
