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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:13am on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | Elizabeth Chmurak has been named associate producer at CNN. She was previously associate producer for documentary series at A&E.
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:03pm on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | Mark Nelson, who has overseen CNN Productions since 2005, is leaving the network while Atlanta-based head of live programming Scott Matthews leaves that position to head up a combined CNN Productions and Investigative unit. Matthews will remain in Atlanta, while the search is on for his replacement.
Additionally, CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein announced that Soledad O'Brien's "In America" franchise, which Nelson had overseen, will be expanded in 2010. The unit will add more than a dozen positions and will be headed up by CNN's Senior VP of current programming Bart Feder. Current CNN Productions staffers will have the first opportunity to apply for the positions.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:34am on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | CNN had the lowest primetime ratings among cable TV news network in October, Bill Carter of the New York Times reported on October 26, 2009:
"CNN, which created the all-news cable network almost 30 years ago, hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, with three of its four programs between 7 and 11 p.m. finishing fourth and last among the cable news networks."
Carter added:
"In an era when the relationship between the White House and Fox News is making headlines, and when the ideological rivalry between MSNBC on the left and Fox News on the right is commanding the spotlight, CNN has little from a news angle to stir consistent interest from viewers."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/media/27rating.html
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:58pm on Friday, September 25th, 2009 | The fat and sassy Jason Linkins dropkicks Lou Dobbs in a Huffington Post post on September 16, 2009:
"CNN is facing pressure on a number of fronts to drop Lou Dobbs from their roster of on-air talent, a move that would force millions of Americans seeking out news about the conspiracy to spread leprosy throughout America via illegal Mexican immigrants to turn instead to the guy who lives under the bridge by the old tire factory."
The full rant:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/drop-dobbs-cnn-pressured_n_288506.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:49pm on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | CNN has introduced a service for newspapers called The CNN Wire Store, which makes its stories available to license and download for $199 per story on a single-use basis.
CNN announced the new service on September 15, 2009, describing it as "a commercial self-service on-line storefront of its wire stories." It enables journalists, publishers and media organizations to license CNN story content through a web based service at www.cnnwirestore.com.
The CNN Wire Store is available globally to license and download individual CNN Wire stories for $199 per story for a single use, utilizing a simple credit card transaction. The site allows publishers to browse through CNN Wire articles, hold selected articles in a cart for review, check out easily, and download story content on demand.
In discussions with publishers and journalists about the news industry and the changing face of the marketplace, CNN earlier this year expanded the offerings of the existing CNN Wire service and made it available for subscription. And now CNN provides the new CNN Wire Store for publishers needing content for single use and on demand basis.
"CNN understands the changing business landscape of journalism and the marketplace. The expanded CNN Wire provides an opportunity for a new platform to make CNN Wire stories easily accessible, and for the first time, on a per-story basis to any publisher, anywhere on their own timetable. With the launch of the CNN Wire Store website, we've made our original journalism easily available to other publishers on demand,"said Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:11am on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | Jamie Kraft has been named the executive producer of CNN's American Morning, the cable news service announced on September 9, 2009.
The announcement was made by Bart Feder, senior vice president for current programming, CNN/U.S.
Kraft has been the acting executive producer since May 2009. Prior to that, he served as the program's senior broadcast producer for the past year, and now will oversee all aspects of the program's production and mission as a hard-news alternative in the morning.
As the program's senior broadcast producer, Kraft was responsible for editorial direction and was instrumental in selecting upcoming stories and overseeing long-term projects. He covered major news stories included the 2008 presidential campaign, the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama, the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the economic and financial crisis and the death of Michael Jackson. Before joining American Morning, he was a senior producer for Anderson Cooper 360 for three years where he was responsible for overseeing all daily and future editorial content for the program.
Kraft came to CNN from CBS News where he worked for more than 13 years. He was a producer on 60 Minutes, where he worked on investigative reports and sports profiles for Steve Kroft. Prior to that, he was a producer for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather where he produced for Rather, and produced assignments domestically and internationally. Awards he received while at CBS included a Gracie award, two Emmy awards and a New York Press Club award.
Kraft has a bachelor's degree in journalism and economics from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children, and coaches three of his children's soccer teams.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:30pm on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | CNN's reactionary gasbag Lou Dobbs is an "angry populist cockroach," The Daily Beast wrote on August 6, 2009:
"Just how did a respected financial-news guru turn into an immigrant-hating, birther-supporting zealot? The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reports. Plus CNN's former CEO on "good Lou," "bad Lou," and why Ted Turner would never let Dobbs do what he is doing today."
The full blog:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-05/what-happened-to-the-real-lou/full/
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:34pm on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | Writing in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair ("Politico’s Washington Coup"), Michael Wolff succinctly summarizes the recent history of the news cycle:
"CNN changed the nature of politics and political reporting by compressing the time it took for something to happen, for it to become widely known, and for newsmakers and the public to react to it (i.e., the news cycle) to half a day—whereas the newspaper news cycle, from next-day publication to day-after reaction, was 48 hours, and network television’s news cycle, from one day’s evening news to the next day’s evening news, was 24 hours. Politico brings the news cycle down to about 15 or 20 minutes."
The full story:
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/wolff200908
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:56pm on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | In a rare moment of candor and introspection, Anderson Cooper described himself as stupid, TVNewser reported on May 19, 2009:
"CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke at UCLA Sunday as part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, and was asked about his "teabagging" comment last month during the Q&A portion.
Calling it a "stupid, silly, one-line aside," he touched on the attention it received. "I think it's an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests," said Cooper. "I don't think it's my job to disparage, or encourage, which oddly other networks seemed to be doing. Protest is the great right of all Americans, and it's not my job in any way to make fun of people or disparage what they're doing."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:38pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | Ratings for Anderson Cooper's CNN "news" show are diving. Or to put it mathematically, as the Los Angeles Times did on May 11, 2009, "Viewers are doing a 180 on Anderson Cooper's '360'":
"Kay Jones, a producer on CNN's Anderson Cooper's "AC360," recently blogged on the show's website that she "deserve[s] the month of May off." Well, she might as well take it because Cooper's fan base is doing just that already.
Cooper's ratings have been in a sharp decline all year, and so far the month of May is no exception."
The full story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/05/anderson-coopers-shrinking-audience.html
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