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CNN Worldwide has tapped Otto Bell to oversee its creative marketing department. Bell will be senior vice president and chief creative officer, and will report to Kristine Coratti Kelly, the executive vice president and head of global communications. He’ll oversee on-air and off-channel brand and…

NPR plans to lay off about 10% of its current staff due to the soft ad market and a drop in revenue from corporate sponsors, as well as uncertainties in the global economy overall. In a memo to staff, NPR CEO John Lansing wrote that “our financial outlook has darkened considerably in recent weeks. At…

Broadcast and cable networks are planning specials, a town hall and other coverage Thursday tied to the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Correspondents also will report from sites around the country, with Vladimir Putin’s regime mounting a winter offensive. Here’s a rundown: AB…

Don Lemon returned to CNN This Morning on Wednesday and issued another apology for comments he made about women on the show last week. Related Story Otto Bell Named CNN's Senior VP And Chief Creative Officer “I appreciate this opportunity to be back on CNN This Morning today,&#8221…

Don Lemon will return to CNN This Morning on Wednesday following the backlash over comments he made last week about when women were in their “prime.” CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO Chris Licht wrote in a memo to staff late Monday, “I sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation. He…

Don Lemon will not appear on Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, missing the show amid controversy over comments about women he made last week that led to an apology on Twitter and to staffers. Lemon is taking the holiday break, a CNN rep confirmed. He was absent from Friday’s show because of…

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Arabia's Neom Media Village has officially opened the doors to its second soundstage, bringing the total number of operational stages in the Neom region to four (two sit in Neom’s Bajdah Desert Studios).  The second stage within the Media Village sits at the same 2,400 square meters…

Objective journalism was on trial Friday night on Bill Maher’s Real Time, with the New York Times as a focus for the discussion on whether opinion has buried news coverage. The panel discussing this important issue included Ari Melber, host of MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber" and staff writer for T…

Chris Cuomo says CNN has done him wrong. "I believe that was taken, I believe wrongly," Cuomo said of the news network taking his job. He was speaking on Anthony Scaramucci’s podcast, "Open Book," which aired Wednesday. "I will litigate that. I am not going to bitch about it in the…

A New York appellate court declined to toss out Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News and personalities including Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo. The appeals court ruling (read it here) stems from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against the network, contending that its personalities and…

The WGA East has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Bustle Digital Group, claiming that three of the 39 guild members who were laid off there recently were terminated "in retaliation for their concerted, protected union activity in violation of the National Labor Relations…

So Howard Bragman has died. I will miss him–not because we were especially close, but because he had a gift for making every encounter kind of fun, and, often, more memorable than it was supposed to be. The last time I spoke with Howard was some months ago. He had called, apropos  of nothing…