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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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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 5:26pm on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | Former CNN news anchor Daryn Kagan is launching "Good News with Daryn Kagan," a syndicated news service featuring "inspiring" news reporting from Kagan, a CNN news anchor from 1994 to 2006.
Distributed by Sewee Entertainment, the news service is available to television stations for use in their newscasts and web sites, and consists of five weekly "ready to air" one-to-two-minute video news reports. Since leaving CNN, Kagan has devoted her time to reporting only happy news.
Unrelated but interestingly, Kagan dated radio windbag Rush Limbaugh for several years, until early 2006.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:21am on Monday, April 27th, 2009 | Although his contention that CNN delivers the news "straight" is debatable, Bill Carter of the New York Times argues that CNN is in trouble because it doesn't take sides. From the article "With Rivals Ahead, Doubts for CNN’s Middle Road" published on April 26, 2009:
"The election of Barack Obama does not seem to have ushered in a kinder, less-polarized environment in politics — or television.
And that’s not a good break for CNN, a network whose strategy is to steer the middle course in its news coverage. CNN’s competitors have been finding more success pounding away at those poles — at least during prime time.
Since the beginning of March, CNN has fallen behind both the longtime ratings leader, Fox News Channel, which, as the voice of disaffected conservatives, again has an imposing lead, and the upstart MSNBC, which has tried to mirror Fox’s success by steering to the left.
CNN has even dipped behind its sister network HLN (formerly Headline News) on many occasions. Since the beginning of 2009, CNN has finished fourth in prime time among the cable news networks on 35 out of 84 weeknights."
Still, cable news remains a moneymakingmachine. SNL Kagan, a media research firm, estimates that CNN (including HLN) earnings before taxes and depreciation will be about $455 million in 2009.
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/media/27cnn.html?_r=1
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:33am on Monday, April 6th, 2009 | "CNN" stands for nothing much anymore, according to New York Times executive editor Bill Keller.
The Politico web site reported that Keller spoke in Stanford, California on April 2, 2009:
"Keller said it's hard to remember that the letters stand for Cable News Network when reporting is replaced by "juries of commentators" behind laptops on a set that looks like "a parody of a 'Daily Show' parody" of a news set."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:21am on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | CNN finishes third and last among cable news networks in March 2009.
The Associated Press reported on March 27, 2009:
"CNN is poised to finish March third in the prime-time weeknight ratings behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the first time this has ever happened for the channel that pioneered the cable news genre nearly three decades ago.
CNN says its overall business is healthy and it is not straying from its straight news path. But it is suffering more audience erosion than its rivals since the peak days of the presidential election, further proof that the opinionated prime-time shows on Fox and MSNBC have greater audience loyalty.
CNN's weekday prime-time ratings are relatively flat compared to last year during the primary campaign, up 1 percent from March 2008, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox's ratings have jumped 30 percent and MSNBC, the new No. 2, is up 24 percent. The biggest growth in cable news is for CNN's partner, HLN, formerly Headline News, which is up 62 percent.
Fox remains on a mountain above its two closest competitors, with its prime-time audience in March more than that of MSNBC and CNN combined. "The O'Reilly Factor" has done particularly well, keeping more of its postelection audience than anything else on CNN and MSNBC.
Through Wednesday, Fox was averaging 2.73 million prime-time viewers in March. MSNBC had 1.16 million and CNN had 1.14 million. The March ratings period ends Friday, and it's doubtful CNN will be able to overcome MSNBC."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:52pm on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | March 5, 2009: CNN reported that TV Doctor Sanjay Gupta has opted out of surgeon general consideration:
"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, he said Thursday.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta will continue his work as a surgeon and for CNN.
"This is more about my family and my surgical career," Gupta told CNN's "Larry King Live."
The neurosurgeon said he would likely have had to give up practicing had he taken the job as the nation's top doctor.
In addition, the 39-year-old and his wife are expecting their third daughter any time, and the government job would have meant long periods away from his family, he said.
"I think, for me, it really came down to a sense of timing more than anything else," he said. "I just didn't feel I should do that now." Video Watch Gupta explain his reasoning »
Gupta said he had not been formally nominated for the job, though he had spoken with senior members of the Obama administration, who made it clear he was their choice, he said."
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