Campbell Brown, Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of media and sports partnerships, is stepping down from the post, according to multiple reports.
Brown, who was an anchor and correspondent at CNN for 14 years, joined the company in 2017 as head of Facebook’s news partnership program.
She later helped lead its $100M to commitment to news reporting during the pandemic, an effort it seems to have since abandoned.
Axios, which first reported the news, also reported this morning that referrals to news sites from the company’s Facebook platform have cratered from about 120 million in 2020 to a little over 22 million in July of this year as it refocuses on video and viral content.
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