CNN hires Kirell as senior media editor
CNN has hired Andrew Kirell as a senior media editor. Kirell has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair for the past nine months but he previously was media editor at The Daily Beast, where he worked for nearly nine years. He was also editor in chief of Mediaite. Kirell also worked as an associate editor at […]
Wills departing WSJ to return to CNN
Amanda Wills is leaving The Wall Street Journal and joining CNN Worldwide in a newly created role within the global news organization, serving as group senior vice president, chief content officer. Her first day will be April 14. She has been chief content officer of video, a masthead role overseeing everything in video form, from breaking […]
CNN hires Liu to cover China business
CNN has hired John Liu to be its China business reporter in Hong Kong. He has been at The New York Times since 2021. Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist covering Taiwan and Myanmar, including Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, for various international media outlets. Liu started as a reporter for the now defunct Myanmar Times based […]
Tax Notes hires CNN’s Lobosco
Tax Notes has hired Katie Lobosco to cover tax policy. She has been writing for CNN Politics, focusing on how economic policy decisions made in Washington affect people across the country. Previously, she covered consumer finance for CNN Business, including the impacts of the 2017 federal tax reform, the massive Equifax data breach, and how Americans are […]
Bloomberg hires CNN’s Sullivan as White House correspondent
Bloomberg White House and politics editor Justin Sink, Washington bureau chief Peggy Collins and managing editor for economy and government Mario Parker sent out the following: All — We are excited to announce that Kate Sullivan will be joining Bloomberg News as a White House correspondent. Kate comes to us from CNN, where she was […]
Rucker departs Washington Post for CNN
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Philip Rucker has joined CNN as senior vice president of editorial strategy and news, the network announced Monday. He will be based out of CNN’s Washington, DC bureau and starts on Feb. 10. In this role, Rucker will bring his decades of experience as a newsroom leader to help mobilize CNN’s […]
CNN hires Pershing, formerly with WSJ
CNN has hired Ben Pershing as a supervising editor in Washington. He previously was politics editor at The Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, Pershing previously served as editor of National Journal. Pershing served for six years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covered Congress for the national staff, anchoring a popular blog […]
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 […]
