“This Does Not Fit the Crime”: CNN Employees Continue to Push Back on the Fall of Jeff Zucker

CNN staffers aren’t the only ones reeling from Jeff Zucker’s stunning exit as network president. His defenestration has apparently touched a nerve in the Capitol too. On Wednesday evening, members of CNN’s Washington bureau met with Jason Kilar, CEO of parent company WarnerMedia, who made the decision that Zucker could not remain with the company due to his failure to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, CNN’s communications and marketing chief—also Zucker’s long-running colleague and closest confidante. Toward the end of the meeting, in which prominent CNN journalists went hard at Kilar over Zucker’s resignation, special correspondent Jamie Gangel… Read Full Article