After Jeff Zucker’s Exit: CNN Holds “Tense” Meeting With Jason Kilar As Staff Reels

The sudden departure of CNN's top exec, at a critical juncture for the network, has left Kilar to do damage control, with mixed success: 'I would not describe Jason’s answers as ‘direct.''

The channel is in the midst of two corporate-level shifts: Entering thewars via its CNN+ service this spring, and preparing to operate under new ownership through Warner Bros. Discovery.was fired

in December, while also preparing for what could be a wild 2022 midterm election, one that executives at the company had been hoping could turn around its ratings fortunes. But no initiative has been more important to Zucker than CNN+, according to multiple CNN sources. One source said they believed that Zucker, who initially planned to step down at the end of last year, stuck around in large part so he could oversee the launch of the streaming service. Andrew Morse, the CNN executive in charge of CNN+, said of the service “this is the most important launch for CNN since Ted Turner launched the network in June of 1980,” and that point of view was shared by staff.

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