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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, new details on Mark Thompson’s Herculean attempt to transform the CNN business model before the linear house burns down. Plus, notes on the Welker-Trump Meet The Press microdrama. Still to come: On Thursday’s edition of The Powers That Be, my colleague Peter Hamby and I discuss journalism in the Trump era, and Michael Wolff’s highly anticipated and inevitably controversial new Fox book.
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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, new details on Mark Thompson’s Herculean attempt to transform the CNN business model before the linear house burns down. Plus, notes on the Welker-Trump Meet The Press microdrama.

Still to come: On Thursday’s edition of The Powers That Be, my colleague Peter Hamby and I discuss journalism in the Trump era, and Michael Wolff’s highly anticipated and inevitably controversial new Fox book. Listen here.

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News and notes on the latest preoccupations of the television news business—Mark Thompson’s Five Year Plan and Kristen Welker’s debut on ‘Meet the Press.’
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In recent weeks, as incoming CNN chief Mark Thompson has gone about introducing himself to the organization’s top executives, producers and on-air talent in one-on-one meetings and phone calls, he has expressed a few near-term priorities for the beleaguered news network.

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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, new details on Mark Thompson’s Herculean attempt to transform the CNN business model before the linear house burns down. Plus, notes on the Welker-Trump Meet The Press microdrama. Still to come: On Thursday’s edition of The Powers That Be, my colleague Peter Hamby and I […]
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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, new details on Mark Thompson’s Herculean attempt to transform the CNN business model before the linear house burns down. Plus, notes on the Welker-Trump Meet The Press microdrama. Still to come: On Thursday’s edition of The Powers That Be, my colleague Peter Hamby and I […]


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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, new details on Mark Thompson’s Herculean attempt to transform the CNN business model before the linear house burns down. Plus, notes on the Welker-Trump Meet The Press microdrama. Still to come: On Thursday’s edition of The Powers That Be, my colleague Peter Hamby and I […]


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