Posted on 11/22/2004 4:37:26 PM PST by oldbrowser
CNN Hires New President for Its U.S. News Group
Mon Nov 22,12:10 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CNN News Group on Monday said it has tapped an online media CEO as its new president overseeing U.S. news, just a little over a year after it hired a former local TV newsman to run its domestic operations.
Jonathan Klein, founder and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom Inc., a high-speed Internet news network and video streamer, will assume the role of head of U.S. news operations, answering to CNN President Jim Walton.
CNN is the cable news unit of Time Warner Inc.
"Six years steeped in the digital information industry have helped me understand today's news consumers in ways never before available to media executives," Klein said in a statement.
Klein replaces Princell Hair, who was appointed to oversee the U.S. news group in September 2003. Industry analysts questioned whether Hair, who ran Viacom Inc.'s television stations and was a former TV news director in Los Angeles and Baltimore, was the best candidate to run one of the world's most prestigious news networks.
Hair will assume a new role as senior vice president of program and talent development across the CNN News Group.
Klein was the former executive director of CBS News, with oversight of its flagship "60 Minutes" program.
From the FeedRoom to the ScreedRoom.....
ping
These people are oblivious
Beware, the pajama people will watching his every move.
Hope he has a good golden parachute.
Heading cnn is like taking over a buggy whip factory.
CNN hiring "the former executive director of CBS News, with oversight of its flagship "60 Minutes" program."
Yeah, that will work!! NEVER have I seen more clueless people. What complete losers!!!
Klien is the guy who made the pajama comment during Rathergate. He is obviously clueless.
Already posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286090/posts
Google his butt up. He's a former 60 Minutes producer. I smell a Dan Rather taint.
Sooner or later they will figure out the problem is not in the presentation, it is in the message.
IN 2008 the CNN contracts with cable companies are up. Today CNN is paid 25 cents a month by the cable companies for every cable subsribers. Fox is paid nothing.
If CNN does not fix its problems by 2008, it will lose that 25 cents and Fox will get it.
Then Fox will be able to afford the number and quality of reporters needed to really increase its viewership. CNN will lose the money to have on the scene reporters.
CNN will be a dead duck if they do not figure it out by 2008. If they do not get it right, they may find themselves haveing to switch formats. Perhaps CNN could compete with the food channel.
Former Executive Director of CBS News, that says a lot.
"that says a lot"
Apparently, there is not enough propaganda and bias on cnn lately. They have to import it.
If CNN does not fix its problems by 2008, it will lose that 25 cents and Fox will get it.
CNN management does not seem to care about money. They seem to be on a mission to promote their point of view, whatever the cost. That's why they just keep trying to repackage the
ideology; changing the faces, the formats, and the managers but never the storyline.
Won't change a thing. CNN & CBS will gutter out. Fox News has what counts-viewers. And viewers that trust Fox News. CNN & CBS did the unforgivable, they tried to change an election. Failure is smacking them in the face every day. All I can say, it didn't come fast enough to please me. I don't watch them and never will.
Yeah, that's gonna help...............
I see that reply a lot to "already posted" responses. I did a search on the title and easily found both articles. How exactly did you do the search? I put in the phrase "CNN Hires New President for Its U.S. News Group" without the quotation marks, chose "By title (date)" clicked the search button and both came up.
CNN Hires New President for Its U.S. News Group
I just put in CNN
I didn't know you had to put the whole title.
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