For the first time since 2004, the veteran broadcaster won’t be the network’s lead anchor announcing general election projections.
CNN’s Jake Tapper will return to his daytime show after the midterms after filling the 9 p.m. ET primetime slot on the network. A CNN spokesperson said, “As part of a special lineup, Jake agreed to anchor the 9 p.m. hour through the midterm elections. At the completion of that schedule, he’ll be returning to his award-winning program The Lead. We will announce post-election plans for that time slot in the coming days.”
With Jake Tapper launching his new CNN primetime show on Tuesday at 9 p.m., he will have to turn from the intensely serious (an interview with President Joe Biden) to the sublime (a chat with actor Dwayne Johnson). It will be just one of many pivots the anchor will have to make in days to come. The new show also represents the first big step that CNN has taken in months to try to parry with its rivals for primetime viewers.
Primaries are now well underway, and the 2022 midterm elections are a focus for news organizations already preparing for what’s certain to be a contentious 2024 presidential campaign. With that in mind, The Hollywood Reporter highlights some of the Beltway-based news personalities and executives poised to play a leading role in the months (and years) ahead.
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Back in December, Matt Negrin, a former journalist and now producer at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” wrote a column for The Washington Post saying that TV journalists who invite Republicans on the air should begin by asking if they believed Biden won the election. If they don’t say yes, the interview should end. Many in the news business believe that stance goes too far, that a journalist’s role is to question ideas and point out inaccuracies or outright fictions, not to pretend they don’t exist. Two Sunday morning hosts, Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace, recently revealed themselves as polar opposites on the point.
Jake Tapper has been promoted at CNN, becoming the cable news channel’s lead Washington anchor. As such, he’ll take an hour from Wolf Blitzer’s daily program. Tapper’s daily show will now run from 4-6 p.m. ET. Wolf Blitzer will run from 6-7. Tapper also gets Dana Bash on Sundays. The two will co-anchor State of the Union together.
The first one-on-one debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will carry on without a live audience tonight at 8 p.m. ET on CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International and Univision. It will also be streamed without authentication on CNN.com and its apps, as well as Univision’s digital properties and Democrats.org. CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and Univision’s Illa Calderon will moderate.
CNN’s Jake Tapper will receive the 2017 John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual’s contributions to the journalism profession and freedom of the press.
Five TV broadcasters — Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier and Gayle King — swap stories about when guests lie to your face, Megyn Kelly joins your network and the importance of accurate reporting: “I’m not sure there always are two sides to every story.”
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Jake Tapper of CNN was a moderator of a March 13 Democratic town hall event in which Hillary Clinton appears to have gotten an unfair advantage. As disclosed earlier this week in a WikiLeaks trove of emails relating to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, the Clinton campaign received word from then-CNN contributor Donna Brazile that a death-penalty question was on tap for the event. “To find out that someone was unethically helping the Clinton campaign — tipping them off — is just very, very upsetting,” Tapper said.
Jake Tapper starts hosting CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. It airs at 9 a.m. ET and is repeated three hours later. He replaces Candy Crowley. He says he hopes to attract viewers who want a little more depth to their political interviews.
The former ABC newsman, who hosts a weekday afternoon program on CNN, replaces Candy Crowley on the cable network’s State of the Union. She left CNN in December and a rotating series of substitutes has been filling in ever since.
Jake Tapper, ABC’s senior White House correspondent, is leaving the network for CNN, where he will anchor a new one-hour news program beginning early next year as CNN’s chief Washington correspondent. Tapper’s exit triggered changes at ABC News. Veteran Washington hand Jonathan Karl will be ABC’s new chief Washington correspondent, and Martha Raddatz’s role will expand as the new chief global affairs correspondent.
