Brian Stelter will depart CNN, a number of sources confirmed to The Day by day Beast, because the community is ready to cancel his Sunday media present Dependable Sources.
CEO Chris Licht knowledgeable Stelter of his determination on Wednesday, based on NPR, and his final present will probably be Sunday. A CNN spokesperson confirmed the information on Thursday afternoon: “CNN will finish its Dependable Sources program on Sunday, August 21st. Because of this Brian Stelter will depart the corporate. We admire his contributions to the community and need him effectively as he embarks on new endeavors.”
“Stelter got here to CNN from the New York Instances because the nation’s high media reporter. He departs CNN an impeccable broadcaster,” Amy Entilis, CNN’s head of expertise wrote within the community’s assertion. “We’re happy with what Brian and his group completed through the years, and we’re assured their affect and affect will lengthy outlive the present.”
Stelter advised NPR: “It was a uncommon privilege to steer a weekly present centered on the press at a time when it has by no means been extra consequential.”
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The Dependable Sources host had been with the community since 2013, when he took over internet hosting duties of the Sunday media-focused speak present. He turned a fixture on the community’s political information protection and infrequently took goal at conservative media, most particularly Fox Information, about which he wrote a e-book, titled Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox Information and the Harmful Distortion of Reality and launched in 2020.
As an in depth ally and pal to former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, who dramatically exited the community final yr, Stelter has often seemed to be at odds with the brand new period of CNN.
“All the pieces about this was rollout factors to [Discovery board member] John Malone and [Discovery CEO] David Zaslav,” a supply aware of the scenario advised The Day by day Beast. “Chris Licht didn’t need to do that.”
In February, he known as out key Malone, the billionaire mogul who advised CNBC final yr that after Discovery’s merger with WarnerMedia, he’d “prefer to see CNN evolve again to the form of journalism that it began with, and truly have journalists, which might be distinctive and refreshing,”
“The individuals who say the Zucker-era CNN was missing in actual journalism clearly weren’t watching CNN straight,” Stelter wrote within the Dependable Sources e-newsletter. “My greatest guess is that they had been watching speaking heads and studying columnists complain about CNN. And sure, I’m together with John Malone on this.”
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