CNN names Collins its chief White House correspondent
CNN has named Kaitlan Collins its anchor and chief White House correspondent. Collins will continue to anchor her weekday 9 p.m. program, “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” while also contributing her signature reporting on President-elect Trump’s second administration across all of CNN’s digital, television and streaming platforms. “Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of […]
CNN hires Skores to cover transportation
Alexandra Skores has joined CNN as a reporter/writer covering transportation based in Washington. Skores joins CNN from The Dallas Morning News, where she was an aviation reporter covering airlines, air travel and the aerospace industry. During her time at The Dallas Morning News, she covered both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, navigating the national attention brought […]
CNN’s Valdes-Dapena departs
CNN Business reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena has left the news organization. He has been covering automobiles, the industry that produces them and the changing ways in which people buy, own and use them. Valdes-Dapena has written about the industry for CNN since 2001 and, in that time, covered the American auto industry’s collapse during the 2008 […]
Stelter returning to CNN as chief media analyst
Longtime media industry reporter Brian Stelter is returning to CNN as chief media analyst. He will helm the “Reliable Sources” newsletter, develop digital content and appear on television. Stelter writes, “All the while I remained an avid reader of Reliable Sources, and especially admired Oliver Darcy‘s fearless reportage, as well as his decision to launch Status last […]
CNN hires Warnes as data and graphics editor
CNN has hired Sophie Warnes as a data and graphics editor. She previously was at The Wall Street Journal as an audience editor. She joined The Journal in 2020 as a strategy editor for the visuals team. Before that, she was a senior data journalist at the Office for National Statistics. Prior to joining ONS, Warnes was […]
CNN’s Darcy departs to start his own newsletter
CNN reporter Oliver Darcy is leaving the news organization to start a media newsletter called Status. Its home page states, “Status covers powerful outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, and Fox News; Hollywood giants such as Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount; and technology companies, including X, Meta, Google, and TikTok. We also follow the […]
TV biz news anchor Dobbs dies at 78
Lou Dobbs, the longtime business news anchor at CNN and then Fox Business, died on Thursday. He was 78. Oliver Darcy of CNN reports, “Dobbs had a lengthy career in broadcast journalism, spending more than two decades at CNN, which he joined at its inception in 1980 and anchoring the program “Moneyline.” Dobbs left CNN […]
CNN entertainment writer Lowry is departing
Veteran entertainment industry reporter Brian Lowry is departing CNN, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg writes, “Lowry holds deep knowledge of the television and studio business and an ability to discuss it with both wit and concision, qualities that have buoyed him over a long career also spent at Variety and The Los Angeles Times. In recent weeks, he […]
CNN senior tech writer Kelly among the layoffs
Samantha Murphy Kelly, a senior tech writer at CNN, was among the layoffs at the news organization on Wednesday. She has been with CNN since 2016. She previously was the deputy tech editor at Mashable. Kelly covered lifestyle tech and entertainment at Mashable, which she joined in 2011. Before joining Mashable, Kelly covered the tech industry as a […]
Bloomberg Opinion hires Thorbecke to cover Asia tech
Bloomberg Opinion has hired Catherine Thorbecke as a columnist covering Asia technology. She will be based in Tokyo. Thorbecke is currently a writer for CNN Business covering the wide-ranging impacts of technology and innovation on our society and culture. Thorbecke joined CNN after more than six years at ABC News, where she held various roles and most-recently […]
