CNN Plots Major Overhaul

New York Times: “Give people news when and where they want it.”

“That, says Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, was one of the brilliant insights Ted Turner had when he started the network at the dawn of cable TV. And if CNN doesn’t follow that advice for the digital age, Mr. Thompson says, the company may no longer exist.”

“Mr. Thompson has been spreading this message inside CNN during his first 15 months in the job. But now, he is taking the biggest steps yet to overhaul the company, steering it away from its reliance on traditional television and attempting to cash in on digital audiences wherever they are, at the same time that President Trump has sent the news cycle into hyperdrive.”