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CNN Lays Off 50 Staffers After Employee Appreciation Week

November 11, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Cuts come at the cable network's Miami, Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta offices

  

Piers Morgan Exits 'America's Got Talent,' Jokes About Hosting Oscars (Video)

November 9, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Morgan said juggling NBC and CNN shows turned out to be harder than it looks

  

N.Y. Times' David Carr: Cooper's 'Anderson' Could Kill His News Cred

November 7, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The media columnist's fears about the new daytime talk show came to him in a dream

  

Soledad O'Brien Returns to CNN's Revamped Morning Lineup

November 3, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

She'll host a "conversational ensemble program" and continue working as a correspondent for documentaries

  

GOP Debate Propels CNN to Strong October

November 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The lone network with an October debate posts year-over-year gains, while MSNBC and Fox News ratings fall

  

Larry King Is Back: Does Special CNN Interview With Johnny Depp (Video)

October 12, 2011 By Kimberly Potts 1 year ago

Depp talks about living in Hunter S. Thompson's basement

  

Feisty at 15, Fox News Turns Its Guns on the Networks

October 10, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

After nearly a decade at No. 1 in the cable news ratings, Roger Ailes turns his gaze away from CNN and over to NBC, CBS, ABC

  

CNN Gains on MSNBC, Sets Off Analysis Frenzy Among Cable News Critics

September 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

With the release of 3rd quarter ratings, the tightened race for 2nd place behind Fox News stirs intrigue

  

Fox News-Google Debate Puts Network Back on Top

September 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Thursday's debate was the most-viewed one so far, though MSNBC's Sept. 7 spar fest still holds a slight edge in the demo

  

Current TV's Cenk Uygur, Executives Ready for 2012, Talk CNN's 'Fake Neutrality'

September 21, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The network will boast a full primetime slate by early 2012 -- just don't call it a cable news channel

  

Poll Position: Fox News Considered 'Best' Cable News Network

September 19, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

CNN places second and fares well among non-whites and younger respondents in national survey

  

Current TV Chooses PBS' Shelley Lewis to Run Programming

September 15, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The new EVP of programming will focus on boosting the network's primetime lineup

  

CNN-Tea Party Debate Wins Night, Falls Short of Earlier Debate Coverage by Rivals

September 13, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Numbers are much lower than those for recent conservative-party debates on MSNBC and Fox

  

MSNBC Sets New Bar for GOP Debates

September 8, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Wednesday's debate drew the highest ratings of any contest thus far, but CNN and Fox News both have debates coming later this month

  

Katt Williams Clarifies Apology for U.S.-Mexico Rants

September 3, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The comedian apologizes to any who took offense but stands by his on-stage remarks, which were perceived as xenophobic

  

Google, Fox News Partner for GOP Debate

September 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The biggest name in online search and the highest-rated network in cable news are teaming up for a presidential debate

  

News Deluge Lifts Fox News, CNN Ratings in August

August 30, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Fox News continued top dominate its rivals while CNN edged past MSNBC

  

Journalists Freed From Tripoli's Rixos Hotel

August 24, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

After being holed up for five days, scores of foreign journalists were permitted to leave the Tripoli hotel

  

CNN's Intrepid Correspondent: 'I'm Gonna Try Not to Get Hit...'

August 23, 2011 By Fred Schruers 1 year ago

CNN war correspondent Sara Sidner should make us all grateful that some will go where we would never want to

  

New MSNBC Host Al Sharpton: 'The Battleground Is Not Just the Streets But the Studio'

August 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

"I’m the only one on this station that has run for President and knows what it is to go through a primary and presidential debate"

  

MSNBC Ends Speculation, Hires Al Sharpton as Primetime Host

August 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The civil rights activist and minister will officially take over the 6 p.m. slot, which he has been hosting for much of the summer

  

CNN's Anderson Cooper Strong in Demo, Still Low in Total Viewers

August 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Cooper is still low in total viewers, but his performance in the demo is cause for encouragement

  

Christine O'Donell's CNN Walk-Off: A Perplexingly Illogical Media Relations Decision

August 20, 2011 By Frankie Stone 1 year ago

Just between us, Christine, I don’t think you’re a witch. But I do think you’re naïve and ill-informed

  

Stephen Colbert Hurls Poop-Pun Onslaught at 'Rival' Anderson Cooper

August 19, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

After watching Cooper laugh uncontrollably over Gerard Depardieu's in-flight meltdown, Colbert is "shocked at this behavior from the award-winning journalist"

  

Fox News Rides Debate to Second Place in Cable

August 17, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The cable news channel posts its third-best week of the year

  

Current TV's David Bohrman: Fox News Is the New Mainstream

August 15, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The new president of the network says he was outed as a liberal by joining Current but that his politics did not affect his job while at CNN.