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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.
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Jim WaltonNumber of Employees 4,000
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NAICS Code News Syndicates: 519110
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Old soldiers shill the Pentagon line
"Old soldiers never die," said Gen. Douglas MacArthur on retiring in 1951, "they just fade away." No more. Now they hustle from battlegrounds to the high grounds of TV news shows, there to supply NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC and others with hawkish support of the U.S. war machine....
General Says Iraq Surge Necessary; GOP Senators Break Ranks with Bush; Appeals Court Throws out Wiretapping Lawsuit; U.K. Terror
KITTY PILGRIM, HOST: Thanks, Suzanne. Tonight, Microsoft escalates its war against what's left of our middle class. The company planning a new software development center, not in the United States but in another country. Also, new concerns the...
Fewer-than-expected reprisals after shrine bombing: Iraq minister
WASHINGTON AFP — Fears that a spasm of reprisal attacks would follow last week's bombing of a revered Shiite shrine by-and-large have not been realized, Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari told US television on Sunday. Zebari said Iraqi officials have been relieved that there has been no large-scale reprise...
US soldiers find explosives-rigged school in Iraq
WASHINGTON AFP — US soldiers stumbled on a plot to turn a girls school in Iraq into an "absolute death trap" by rigging it with explosives while it was under construction, a US military spokesman said Thursday. "It was truly just an incredibly ugly, dirty kind of vicious killing...
President's War Plan; Rise in Murders in New Orleans
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: More reports President Bush is addressing the nation on Iraq tonight. He is expected to deploy thousands of new U.S. troops and set a date for Iraqi soldiers to take charge. MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Paradise lost:...
As inmate, Saddam read poetry, fed the birds: US nurse
WASHINGTON AFP — Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was an avid reader, fed birds and told jokes while he was in US custody, an American military nurse who looked after him said in interviews with US media. Robert Ellis, 56, an operating room nurse assigned to Saddam during his US...
US soldier who blew whistle on Abu Ghraib has no regrets
WASHINGTON AFP — US soldier Joseph Darby, who revealed to investigators the abuse committed by US troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, said he was denounced by relatives as a "traitor" but that he did not regret his decision to expose the scandal. In his first public...
Cheney warns of Iraq domino effect
WASHINGTON AFP — US Vice President Dick Cheney warned that a hasty US retreat from Iraq would have a domino effect, helping terrorists and hurting US allies in the Middle East and from Europe to Asia. "It is absolutely the worst possible thing we could do at this point,"...
US lawmaker again charges coverup in Haditha, Iraq
WASHINGTON AFP — US lawmaker John Murtha renewed his explosive charge that US soldiers killed unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the US military tried to cover it up. "This is what worries me. We're fighting a war about America's ideals and democracy's ideas and something like this happens,...
My Life in Combat; Fed up with the coverage in Iraq, soldiers are penning their own blogs. Hollywood can't be far behind.
Byline: Tara Pepper Colby Buzzell had spent nearly nine months as a U.S. infantry soldier based in Mosul, Iraq, when his battalion was involved in a ferocious gun battle that engulfed the city. Scrolling through news Web sites the next day, Buzzell found just...
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 |
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