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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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Appointments
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Widow Says Mortgage Debt Collectors Caused Husband's Death
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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
News & Analysis
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CNN leads in ratings of convention coverage
- 2008-08-29
NEW YORK AP -- Interest in the Democratic convention among television viewers continues to run well ahead of 2004, although vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was a slightly less potent draw than Hillary Clinton. CNN was also claiming a milestone in the network's history, beating ABC and CBS...
Old soldiers shill the Pentagon line
- 2008-05-16
"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....
Levi's®, Ford/Volvo, Coors, AT&T, NBC Universal and CNN to "Rock the Digital World" at Avenue A / Razorfish Client Summit
- 2008-05-12
8th annual summit will give media access to presentations normally reserved for private audiences Digital store of the future, social media and top 5 digital brands big on the agenda Avenue A | Razorfish: WHAT Avenue A | Razorfish, one of the largest interactive services firms...
Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, NBC, and ABC!
BNET
- 2008-04-23
It's a Presidential election year, which almost always means good financial news for the television industry. This year is no exception, as the political parties and leading candidates pour hundreds of millions of dollars into high-stakes TV ad campaigns. Meanwhile, where is network TV news in this mix? ...
Television caps off super news month
- 2008-02-05
NEW YORK -- The Super Tuesday presidential primaries today top off an unexpectedly thrilling and profitable month for television news with a super mystery. One day, primaries in nearly half of the states and two contested races -- it has never happened before, certainly not on this scale....
Vsurance Launches National Television Advertising Campaign on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, FOX NEWS, CNN and More!
- 2007-10-15
30 Second Commercial Highlighting Vsurance's Pet Health Insurance Services and Growth Potential to Launch Nationwide on October 17, 2007
The big newscasts and the Black anchors who deliver them
- 2007-08-01
AS BOMBS EXPLODED outside his window, Bernard Shaw was as cool as the other side of the pillow. Reporting live from the ninth floor of a Baghdad hotel at the start of the Gulf Wars in 1991, CNN's top anchor, a Black man, was so good at bringing the action...
Campbell Brown takes CNN gig
- 2007-07-24
Broadcast news continues to draw millions of viewers every day, but Campbell Brown, 39, says it's not for her generation. "My generation -- my sisters and my friends -- gets their news from cable and the Internet," Brown says. "To me, this is the future." ...
More reporters embrace an advocacy role
- 2007-03-06
The "social journalism" that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy godmother is the new rage in network and cable news, and it's expanding to other media. Increasingly, journalists and talk-show hosts want to "own" a niche issue or problem, find ways to solve it and be...
Fast Track.(advertising expenditures, CBS Entertainment's "Criminal Minds", Emmy awards)
- 2006-12-11
By Staff Ad Dollars Climb But Still Off Target Ben Grossman The growth rate in total advertising expenditures over the past six months is trailing projections, even as total ad spending...
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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