CNN chief Licht ousted after 13-month tenure

By Associated Press

Jun 09, 2023 12:12 am

NEW YORK CITY: The chief executive of CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network's journalists were losing confidence by the day.

Chris Licht's very bad year culminated in a damning magazine profile last week, and just a few days later, his tumultuous 13-month tenure was over.

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