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CNN’s Chris Licht Outlines Changes In Wake Of Network Layoffs

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CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO Chris Licht outlined the network’s changes as the network went through a significant round of job cuts. “At the highest level, the goal is to direct our resources to best serve and grow audiences for our core news programming and products,” Licht wrote in a memo to staffers on Thursday. “To achieve these goals, we will be reducing open job positions, reimagining our workflows and aligning our staffing, investments and focus around three key strategic priorities: programming, newsgathering and digital.

All decisions are designed to strengthen the core of our business.” A couple of hundred positions were impacted by job cuts on Wednesday and Thursday, including paid contributors and salaried employees.

Among those departing are political analyst Chris Cillizza and anchor and correspondent Martin Savidge. Some of the biggest changes will happen at HLN, its former Headline News channel.

CNN will end live programming for the channel and instead will simulcast CNN This Morning in the AM hours. The true crime series will be moved to WBD Networks led by Kathleen Finch and will be merged with ID, Licht wrote.

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