The Worldwide Leader in Zaz

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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, a gut-check on Zaslav’s CNN at the one-year mark, with new reporting on what’s gone wrong and what’s coming next.

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The Worldwide Leader in Zaz

It’s been a year since CNN has been under Zaz rule—a mixed bag of earnest repositioning and depolarization, to be sure, but also rough headlines, rougher ratings, and high-profile departures. Chris Licht’s post-Zuckerificarion wasn’t going to happen overnight, but how long will it take?

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Two years ago, shortly after David Zaslav engineered his $43 billion Discovery-WarnerMedia masterstroke and elevated himself to the rarefied stratosphere of legit media moguldom, he received some unsolicited advice from fellow traveler Brian Roberts, the chairman and chief executive of Comcast. As Zaslav would later recount to friends, Roberts had told him that the cable news business, with its partisan politics and outsized egos, could be a major distraction in the grand scheme of operationalizing his then-$200 billion market cap multinational telecom and media conglomerate. Cable news, so the story goes, accounted for...

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