CNN's Morning Call: What's Happening?
This blog post covers CNN's morning call, including who is in attendance, CEO David Zaslav's comments, and more. It provides an inside look at the goings-on of the morning call.
Sara Fischer
Senior Media Reporter @Axios ——- Media Analyst @CNN ——- sara@axios.com
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1/ THREAD: CNN's morning call, just started, here's what's happening:
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023
— So far, a source said, over 750 people have joined (Anyone at the company can technically join the call.) That's a lot more than typically joins. https://t.co/MhnzKMxQek -
2/ Sitting in the NY conference room right now:
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023
— WBD CEO David Zaslav (speaking highly of Chris now)
— David Leavy, Amy Entelis, Athan Stephanopoulos, Ryan Kadro, Eric Sherling, Jim Murphy, others -
3/ Zaslav:
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023
"For a number of reasons, it didn't work out. And that's on me, I take full responsibility."
"We have put a transition team in place. It's effective immediately ... The acting leadership team will be Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley and Eric Sherling. -
Zaslav: "I have great confidence in this group and I will fully support them until a new CEO is named. As I said, we're in no rush."
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023 -
5/ Zaslav:
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023
— Calls CNN essential. "We're going to fight to make CNN and this group, and this group, is going to fight to make CNN the best version of a global, contemporary news organization in the world. " -
Over 800 people joined that. Normally around 200-400 people join
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 7, 2023
— Zaslav appeared to be reading those remarks from a script.
— Now most people have left. Call is not over but now they are going into normal 9am call.
— Licht was not in the room. DIdn't get any remarks.