CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Licht has stepped down from the media company, effective immediately, CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said on Wednesday, June 7.
Warner Bros said that it put in place an interim leadership team including Amy Entelis, EVP of talent and content development; Virginia Moseley, EVP of editorial; and Eric Sherling, EVP of US programming, as well as David Leavy, chief operating officer, on the commercial side.
The move comes less than a week after the Atlantic magazine published a critical report about Licht.
CNN’s ratings have been going down the last couple of years despite the company’s attempts to get more Republican viewers.
In an email to staff on Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery President and Chief Executive David Zaslav wrote that the company will be conducting a wide search, internally and externally, for a new leader.
He added: “Unfortunately, things did not work out the way we had hoped – and ultimately that’s on me.”
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