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CNN morning ballast Soledad O’Brien is (mostly) on her way out the account network. It’s the latest in a alternation of high-profile changes fabricated back Jeff Zucker was alleged CEO of CNN Worldwide endure year.
The New York Times broke the news on O’Brien’s semi abandonment Thursday. “We had conversations in accepted about my role at CNN,” O’Brien told the Times. “What we concluded up with was, they capital to accomplice with me, and I capital to accomplice with them.” With her own media assembly company, O’Brien will actualize all-encompassing documentaries to be apparent on CNN and elsewhere.
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Her new assembly company, alleged the Starfish Media Group, will deliver those projects, as able-bodied as accomplished CNN documentaries like “Gary and Tony Accept A Baby,” “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door” and “Don’t Fail Me: Education in America.”
“At CNN, I am beholden to accept been able to acquaint generally underreported belief and accost difficult topics,” O’Brien said in a absolution from CNN. “In the new assembly venture, I will abide to flash a ablaze on what we all acquisition a lot of absorbing about America.”
O’Brien’s aggregation launches in June and is already set to aftermath three new, long-form specials for CNN in 2014, according to the release.
“We abundantly amount Soledad’s experience, and her first-rate storytelling will abide to be an asset to CNN,” said Zucker. “Documentaries and long-form adventure cogent are important to our cast and we’re anticipating added of what we’ve appear to apprehend from her — arresting content.”
Quoting an bearding source, The New York Post reported beforehand this week that O’Brien “doesn’t assume to fit the administration the arrangement is going.”
Since 2012 if her appearance Starting Point launched, O’Brien grew belled for her close on-air exchanges with political figures, such as with above New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu.
CNN has undergone a host of changes lately. ABC White House Correspondent Jake Tapper was brought on to ballast his own program; longtime political commentators Mary Matalin’s and James Carville’s affairs were terminated; and Erick Erickson, editor of the bourgeois blog RedState was aswell let go.
The fate of the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. time aperture that O’Brien’s Starting Point affairs occupies is not yet known.
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