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CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world's most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.
President
Jim WaltonNumber of Employees 4,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code News Syndicates: 519110
Recent Events
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OPINION: TV blurs line between facts and opinions
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Hulu U.S. video streams soar almost 50% in October, Google’s YouTube flat
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Lou Dobbs set his sights high in N.J.
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CNN looks past U.S.
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Fantasy to Fiction
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Sideshow: CNN's John King to replace Dobbs
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John King replaces Lou Dobbs on CNN
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Great American hero off the air
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Paraguay president explains military shake-up
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CNN.com Launches News Trivia Quiz
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CNN downplays ratings decline
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TrafficLand, provider of live traffic video, plans Colorado launch
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CNN site reflects growing importance of online video
News & Analysis
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@Paley Center: Bewkes on Justifying CNN's Low Ratings
I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox...
CNN.com Pulls The Plug On Anchor Webcasts
Just two weeks after overhauling CNN.com, the news website is reorganizing its live webcast unit and doing away with its anchor-driven newscasts, according to a memo obtained by Mediabistro’s Webnewser. The memo, attributed to CNN.com SVP/GM KC Estenson (pictured, left), four of the CNN Live anchors, and several production...
A New Financial Model For News, Straight From The Cable Industry
Amos Gelb is an associate professor at George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Previously, he was a television producer at CNN and ABC, among other places.The challenge facing the news business today is now so worked-over that any edges have become smooth. The well-worn dilemma: more...
CNN Wire Launches A La Carte Store For Text Reports
If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched for newspapers and online, is already tinkering with its business model a few months after its launch: it has launched a text-only online store, at CNNWireStore.com,...
Note to AP, Media: Bloggers/Search Engines R Your Best Friends
Facebook is becoming an increasingly important source of traffic for media sites, including CNN.com and the NYTimes.com, according to Compete's figures for July. The continuing significance of Google and Yahoo is apparent for every media company I've checked. At CNN, for example, the...
Next Up in Twitter's Rise: Passing CNN
As we recently calculated using figures available via Compete.com, Twitter's unique visitor total is soaring past the NYTimes.com's this month, landing the microblogging service well up into the list of Top 50 websites. Tonight, again using Compete data, we are projecting that Twitter will pass another media giant, CNN.com, sometime...
NY Times, Washington Post, CNN Partner with Bloggers
It seems almost like yesterday that we were reporting on the State of the Blogosphere, courtesy of Technorati's new report. (It was, in fact, the day before yesterday.) Meanwhile, new deals seem to be popping up everywhere between mainstream news companies and blogging networks. The New York...
Pundit police are never off duty
NEW YORK -- Fewer than a half-million people were watching MSNBC when David Shuster made his comment that Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign had "pimped out" daughter Chelsea by having her make political phone calls. Among them were monitors at Newsbusters. The Web site posted video of Shuster 10...
Redskins' Taylor dies after shooting
WASHINGTON AFP — Washington Redskins star defender Sean Taylor died early Tuesday morning after being shot Monday by intruders at his home in Miami, the National Football League club announced Tuesday. The 24-year-old safety died in a Florida hospital where he underwent nearly seven hours of emergency surgery Monday...
YouTube debate logs us all onto tomorrow
SOMETHING UNUSUAL happened at Monday's Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina. It seems that people actually paid attention to it. Most of the attention for this debate, which was a collaboration between CNN and the video posting Web site YouTube, of course, was on the novel format....
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Jim Walton | President |
| Jonathan Klein | President, CNN, US |
| Greg D'Alba | Executive Vice President & COO, Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc. |
| Jonathan Davies | Executive Vice President, CNN Intl News Advertising Sales |
| Ken Jautz | Executive Vice President, CNN Worldwide |
| Richard Davis | Executive Vice President, News Standards and Practices |
| Susan Grant | Executive Vice President, CNN News Services |
| Susan M. Bunda | Executive Vice President, Content Development and Strategy |
| Bart Feder | Senior Vice President, Current Programming, CNN/U.S. |
| Jack Womack | Senior Vice President, Domestic News Operations and Admin for CNN, US |
| Katherine Green | Senior Vice President, Programming, CNN International |
| Parisa Khosravi | Senior Vice President, International Newsgathering, CNN Worldwide |
| Rena Golden | Senior Vice President & Executive Producer, CNN.com |
| Christopher Crommett | Senior Vice President, CNN en Español |
| Mitch Gelman | Senior Vice President & Senior Executive Producer, CNN.com |
| Tony Maddox | Executive Vice President & Managing Director, CNN International |
| Scott Matthews | Director, Programming, CNN/U.S. |
| David Payne | Senior Vice President & General Manager of CNN.com |
| Nancy Lane | Senior Vice President, Editorial, CNN/U.S. |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | President, CNN Worldwide | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | President | Current |
| CNN Headline News | President | Former |
| CNN Worldwide | President & Chief Operations Officer, CNN News Group | Former |
| University of Maryland | Bachelor's Degree, Radio, Television and Film | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | President, CNN, US | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | Executive Vice President & COO, CNN Advertising Sales and Marketing | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President & COO, Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc. | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, CNN Intl News Advertising Sales | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, CNN Worldwide | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, News Standards and Practices | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, CNN News Services | Current |
| Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. | Board Of Directors | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, CNN.com | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President, Content Development and Strategy | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, News of CNN, US | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, Current Programming, CNN/U.S. | Current |
| The Feedroom | CEO, President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, Domestic News Operations and Admin for CNN, US | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, Programming, CNN International | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, International Newsgathering, CNN Worldwide | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President & Executive Producer, CNN.com | Current |
| CNN International | Senior Vice President | Current |
Crommett is a lifetime member and former regional director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and has earned several professional distinctions, including the National Eagle Leadership Institute's "Eagle Award." Crommett also sits on the board of the Atlanta-based non-profit Health and Education Relief Organization (HERO), dedicated to building schools and clinics in Haiti. Before joining CNN, Crommett worked in the New York market as news director at WXTV Univision Channel 41 and later at WADO-AM Radio. He began his career in Puerto Rico as news director at WOSO-AM and later at all-news WKAQ Radio Reloj, while also reporting for the CBS Radio Network. He was the first news anchor and assistant news director at WPRV-TV Channel 13 in San Juan, founded in 1985. He also served for a year as press secretary to Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U.S. Congress. Born in the United States and raised in Puerto Rico, Crommett has native fluency in Spanish and English. He graduated with honors from Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Future of Television Conference | Senior Vice President, Cnn En Espanol | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, CNN en Español | Current |
| Health and Education Relief Organization | Board of Directors | Current |
| Haverford College | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President & Senior Executive Producer, CNN.com | Current |
| University of California, Berkeley | Bachelor's Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Vice President & Managing Director, CNN International | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Director, Programming, CNN/U.S. | Current |
| WWOR-TV, Inc. | Vice President and News Director | Former |
| WNYW-TV | Vice President and News Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President & General Manager of CNN.com | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CNN Worldwide | Senior Vice President, Editorial, CNN/U.S. | Current |
| CNN Worldwide | Vice President & News Director, CNN/U.S | Former |
| CNN Worldwide | Executive Producer, The World Today | Former |
Executive News
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Behar adds to female-dominated HLN lineup
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Peninsula readers' letters: Aug. 25
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RTNDF workshop to examine new tools for newsgathering
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Third Annual 'CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute' Garners a Record 9,000 Nominations
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