Chris Licht had no idea he was about to be fired by CNN: report

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure

Chris Licht replaced Jeff Zucker as CNN’s chief executive last year with a mandate to move the network more toward the political center.

CNN chief Chris Licht ends turbulent run at network

After joining CNN last year, Licht came under fire for editorial decisions while the news outlet saw ratings diminish.

CNN chief Chris Licht ends turbulent run at network

NEW YORK: Chris Licht, the embattled head of CNN, has stepped down "effective immediately," the network's parent company Warner Brothers Discovery announced Wednesday (Jun 7), as the global news outlet struggles to reverse a ratings decline. After joining CNN last year, Licht came under fire for editorial

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive 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

Chris Licht Failed at CNN. And So Did His One Big Idea.

He saw an audience that hated the network. And he went for them.

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure - Castor Advance

The chief executive 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.