CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Out Over Relationship With Senior Executive
By Newsmax Wires
| Wednesday, 02 February 2022
11:13 AM
CNN
President Jeff Zucker announced his resignation Wednesday after
revealing that he had a relationship with a senior network executive.
"As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo's tenure at CNN,
I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone
I have worked with for more than 20 years. I acknowledged the relationship
evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I
didn't. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today," Zucker wrote
in a
memo to network colleagues.
Zucker, who took over CNN in 2013, makes his exit at a
crucial time for CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, which is in the process of
merging with Discovery. The news network also is gearing up for launch of a new
streaming service, CNN+, in the Spring.
Zucker did not name his colleague. But CNN
reports that Allison Gollust, the network's chief marketing
officer and an EVP, revealed in her own memo that she is the person in
question and that she is expected to remain with the network.
"Jeff and I have been close friends and professional
partners for over 20 years. Recently, our relationship changed during COVID. I
regret that we didn't disclose it at the right time. I'm incredibly proud of my
time at CNN and look forward to continuing the great work we do everyday,"
she wrote, according to the CNN report.
Cuomo was fired by CNN after it was discovered he aided
his brother, then-New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
to deal with a sexual harassment investigation. He actively helped craft his
his brother’s responses to the charges, according to emails and a transcript of
his testimony to investigators working for New York State Attorney General
Letitia James.
Gollust previously was Gov. Cuomo's communications director.
In a memo to colleagues, Zucker said he wished his nine-year leadership of CNN
"has ended differently....I came to CNN on January 28, 2013. Together, we
had nine great years."
Discovery,
DISCA, with a market cap of $13.7 billion, was trading at $27.42 a
share at 12:15 p.m. EST, virtually unchanged from its market open of $27.17.
Connecting the Dots:
CNN Worldwide is a division
of CNN.
Jeff
Zucker is the president of CNN
Worldwide and a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was the mayor of New York,
a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation
and Emma Bloomberg’s father.
Emma Bloomberg is
Michael R. Bloomberg’s daughter and
was a senior planning officer for the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Foundation to
Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank) and is the founder of CNN.
Christopher Cuomo is
an anchor for CNN and Mario M. Cuomo’s son.
Andrew M. Cuomo
was the New York state government governor, Mario M. Cuomo’s son and his political
adviser was Jennifer Cunningham.
Maria Cuomo Cole is Mario M. Cuomo’s daughter and married
to Kenneth D. Cole.
Kenneth D. Cole is
married to Maria Cuomo Cole and
a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Sundance Institute
and the Robin Hood Foundation.
George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Robert Redford is
the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute and a partner with the Sundance
Channel.
NBCUniversal is a partner with the Sundance
Channel.
Jeff
Zucker was the president & CEO for NBCUniversal, the president of CNN Worldwide and is a director at
the Robin Hood Foundation.
Jennifer
Cunningham was Andrew M. Cuomo’s political
adviser and is a director at the Drum
Major Institute for Public Policy (think
tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Drum Major Institute for
Public Policy (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a
funder for the American Constitution
Society.
Mario M. Cuomo was a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, Christopher Cuomo’s father, Andrew M. Cuomo’s father, Christopher Cuomo’s father and a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state for the New York state government.
Resources: Past Research
Charleston: CNN’s Sick
Pattern of Using the Dead as Political Weapons Against the Right (Past Research on CNN)
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/06/charleston-cnns-sick-pattern-of-using.html
Another CNN Anchor
Faces Disturbing Sexual Assault Allegations — It’s Ugly (Past Research on CNN and the Cuomo Family)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2021
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