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Feb 2, 2022 · Zucker rehabbed Trump’s career in 2004 by green-lighting The Apprentice. During the early days of his first presidential run, Trump was ratings gold for CNN, which covered him incessantly...
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We’ve known for some time that the National Football League has a problem with how it treats people of color. It had to put in place a rule — the Rooney Rule — that requires teams to interview minority candidates whenever they have a head coaching opening. And yet the rule has failed because, despite its intentions, it has lacked good faith. As of ...
Another big football story on Wednesday. The professional football team in Washington has a new nickname. It’s the Commanders. I personally liked it when they were called the Washington Football Team, but Commanders is, certainly, way better than the racist nickname Washington used for nearly 90 years before dropping it in July 2020. The new name w...
I have another thought in the wake of Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension from ABC’s “The View.” Goldberg said that the Holocaust was not about race. (Check out my Wednesday newsletterfor all the details.) Goldberg apologized, and then was suspended for two weeks. Now let me be clear: This isn’t a defense of Goldberg or her comments. But are we surprised ...
No correction in this newsletter is acceptable, but it’s even more infuriating when there’s a mistake about sports. After all, I was a sportswriter for 30-some years! But I goofed in Wednesday’s newsletter. I said Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Bucs lost in overtime to the Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs. Actually, the Rams won in regulation. In my defense...
ABC News’ “Soul of a Nation” returns with a special tonight called “Screen Queens Rising.” It will explore how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and undervalued group in Hollywood, have in...CNN’s Frank Pallotta with “Spotify CEO addresses Joe Rogan controversy.”The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi with “The White House’s new press briefing seat chart says a lot about where each reporter stands.”Also in The Washington Post, Jeremy Barr with “Fox News doesn’t carry Trump rallies live anymore. ‘He’s got to be very unhappy about it.’”Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Yong has another must-read piece in The Atlantic about COVID-19: “Hospitals Can’t Accept This as ‘Normal.’”For Esquire, Rowan Moore Gerety with “Who Writes the Rules for Cops?”And finally, absolutely stunning work by a team at The New York Times, including reporter John Branch: “What Scares The World’s Most Daring Olympians.”Truly elite work.Hiring? Post jobson The Media Job Board — Powered by Poynter, Editor & Publisher and America’s Newspapers.His contract with the show expires at the end of 2012. Nov. 29, 2012: CNN announces it has hired Zucker as its new chief, hoping to gain ground on Fox News and MSNBC. He succeeds Jim Walton,...
He, however, left the show to take up an administrative position at 'CNN Worldwide' on January 1, 2013. During his stint with 'CNN,' Zucker saw success with the documentary acquisition 'Blackfish' and 'Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.'
Feb 8, 2022 · Zucker shocked CNN staffers when he announced his resignation last Wednesday. But there was one early sign of the storm to come: A few days prior, he had stopped running the morning meetings....
Feb 2, 2022 · Here are five facts about Jeff Zucker, who resigned on Wednesday as president of CNN and chairman of WarnerMedia's news and sports division for failing to disclose a consensual relationship with...
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In an email sent to staff on Wednesday morning, Zucker, 56, said that as part of the investigation into Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, he was “asked about a consensual relationship with my closest...
