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.
This is the guy who demeans bloggers by saying that they work wearing pajamas in their livingrooms. . . How could CNN be so transparent as to hire this pompous jerk. I guess they don't want to add anyone to their viewer numbers.
I hope CNN doesn't start coming up with lost documents
from unimpeachable sources.
Oh. I thought Baghdad Bob came out of hiding.
In a move that has enhanced the crediblity of both organizations, Klien has moved from executive director of CBS News, to head CNN's U.S. news operations.
{;^)
He also answers to the name 'Mikhail.'
How daring and original.
I'll bet you got lots of hits for just CNN ... too many hits to fish out the duplicate. It helps to put in the major words so you don't get zillions of hits. If you put in (again without the quotation marks) "CNN new president" you'll get a manageable result set. Anyway, it is an important article and the mods usually let duplicates slide when the topic is hot and the other post is several hours old. Someone almost always posts a link to the old article so people can find all the commentary. Happy FReeping, NVA
"Then Fox will be able to afford the number and quality of reporters needed to really increase its viewership".
agree with your post overall, but doesn't this sentence imply that 'presentation' IS important?
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