Longtime cnn anchor Jim Acosta who would have left the network. His departure follows A new programming reshuffle This would have seen him go from time slot from 10:00 a.m. to midnight.
Oliver Darcy First reported Acosta’s decision in his status newsletter. Cnn Brian Stelter Also includes the news of the departure in his newsletter of reliable sources, citing sources close to the issue. VAriety reports that Acosta is likely to inform viewers of his departure during the Tuesday television newspaper.
TVNewser contacted CNN to comment, but none were received at the time of the press.
Last week, CNN announced that it Cut 6% of his workforce—Mesimly 200 employees – as part of its pivot of a linear product with the digital product. These layoffs have mainly had an impact on roles on the production side, where the network seeks to reduce costs. CNN has also announced that it would seek to fill 100 new roles on the digital side of the company.
“The changes we are announcing today are part of a continuous response from this great press organization to deep and irreversible changes in the way the public in America and the world consumes news,” said the president and CNN CEO Mark Thompson wrote in a memo to the staff provided in TVNewser. “It is not and cannot be a single set of changes but an investment, experimentation and adaptation process that will last years.”
While the talent on the antenna of CNN remained largely in place after the cuts, the role of Acosta was pending. He anchor the 10 -hour time in the CNN editorial room since February 2024 When the network has shaken its morning range.
Acosta joined CNN in 2007 with CBS News, rising in the ranks to become a national political correspondent, then chief correspondent of the White House. He moved to the anchor chair in 2021 as an anchor of the CNN editorial room on weekends.
But Acosta is perhaps the most famous for her combative exchanges with the president Donald Trump And other officials during the first Trump administration. During a 2017 press conferenceThe president notably refused to answer Acosta questions, calling CNN to “false news”.
That same year, Acosta compared Trump’s White House To the “bad reality TV”, adding: “I do not know in which world we live … where we are going to the White House, and they take us to the briefing room, and they do not answer these questions to The camera or we allow us to record the audio. »»
With Trump’s return to the Oval Office, CNN would have sought to modify this tone before. Many media observers have noted The fact that the coverage of the day inauguration of the network seemed to have criticisms in disagreement on the president.
But Acosta has always asked difficult questions to republican legislators. His controversial interview on January 22 with rep. TIM BURCHETT From Tennessee on Trump’s decision to forgive thousands of rioters on January 6 has become viral. “It’s not Fox, a member of the Congress. You can’t just rotate a story and pull the wool on people’s eyes, “he told Burchett at some point.
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The new range of CNN programs begins in March and replaces the CNN editorial hall with a two -hour block from the situation room, led by Wolf Blitzer And Pamela Brown. Other changes include this morning anchor Kasie Hunt Move at 4 p.m. and Rahel Solomon Host a weekly version of the network 5 of the network at 5 a.m.
