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![]() Today, however, my heart is heavy for so many of my CNN colleagues and friends. It has been a painful week,” CNN anchor Ana Cabrera wrote on Twitter. She also is departing the network, sources say, although it was unrelated to job cuts.Īn exit that got a lot of social media buzz was that of political analyst Chris Cillizza, lured from the The Washington Post five years ago, as he had authored the popular blog The Fix. He took that to CNN, in what then-CNN chief Jeff Zucker said was meant to add “more destination bylines to our digital properties,” per the Post back then. Cillizza took his signature quick spin to CNN with The Point, a newsletter and podcast. Licht has talked of a focus on the network’s core mission and shedding areas that are not part of it. ![]() Preceding the layoffs was a scaling back of CNN Original Series and CNN Films. Those projects were not just a feature of the Zucker era but also a central part of the short-lived streaming venture CNN+, which shuttered just three weeks after the close of the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery. That $43 billion combination is driving cutbacks across the entire portfolio, with top execs pledging to deliver at least $3.5 billion in cost savings.
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