CNN White House correspondent John Harwood introduced on Friday that he was leaving the information community, which is within the midst of a rethink of its programming technique below a brand new Warner Bros Discovery management crew.
Harwood, whose profession has included stints at CNBC, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is the second high-profile journalist to depart CNN in current weeks. Last month media critic Brian Stelter exited after the community’s new chief govt, Chris Licht, cancelled his present Reliable Sources.
Warner Bros Discovery was fashioned when Discovery acquired CNN mother or father WarnerMedia in April. Changes on the community got here shortly: David Zaslav, chief govt, shut down streaming platform CNN Plus simply weeks after its launch.
Questions about how Warner Bros Discovery would deal with CNN have swirled since cable tv pioneer John Malone, a giant shareholder within the firm and a political conservative, supplied a critique of the community’s journalism final 12 months.
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” Malone informed CNBC in November.
Later, Zaslav informed buyers he was “fully committed” to CNN, however famous that it shouldn’t be an “advocacy network”.
“CNN is in the business of journalism first, and that’s what we’re going to fight for,” he mentioned.
Harwood joined CNN in 2020 from CNBC, and has been a frequent critic of former US president Donald Trump, who he referred to as a “dishonest demagogue” in a report on Thursday evening.
In a tweet on Friday, the 65-year-old Harwood mentioned “today is my last day at CNN” and added that he seemed “forward to figuring out what’s next”.
Company officers have mentioned CNN will shift away from opinion programming and in the direction of extra straight information.
CNN declined to touch upon Harwood’s departure. “We appreciate John’s work covering the White House, and we wish him all the best,” it mentioned in a press release.
Source: www.ft.com