CNN Leadership

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Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld founded CNN.

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CNN executives

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The CNN executive team is 46% female and 54% male.
70% of the management team is White.
6% of CNN management is Hispanic or Latino.
11% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Ted Turner

Founder

Reese Schonfeld

Founders

Andrew Morse

EVP

Andrew Morse (born March 10, 1974) is an American television news executive and currently Executive Vice President of CNN US and General Manager of CNN Digital Worldwide. He oversees the TV network's domestic newsgathering operations as well as the Washington, D.C. bureau and DC-based programming. Morse also manages CNN's global digital business, including editorial, product, technology, emerging platforms, business development and partnerships. Morse is the co-founder of Great Big Story, the digital storytelling network.

Chris Licht

Board Member

Alessio Vinci

Correspondent/Rome Bureau Chief

Alessio Vinci is a Reporter at CNN and Correspondent/Rome Bureau Chief at CNN and is based in Провинция, Rim, Mari El Republic, Russia. He attended European School between 1974 and 1987.

Allison Gollust

EVP, Chief Marketing Officer

Allison Gollust serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for CNN Worldwide. She has oversight of all communications, messaging and marketing strategy and execution on behalf of the portfolio of CNN networks and businesses, which includes CNN/U.S., HLN, CNN's digital platforms, and Great Big Story, as well as domestic operations of CNN International and CNN en Espa�ol.

Amy Entelis

EVP

Brian Stelter

Senior Media Correspondent, Host of Reliable Sources

As the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide and anchor of “Reliable Sources,” I report on trends, personalities and companies across the media spectrum from news to entertainment.Before coming to CNN, I was a media reporter for The New York Times covering television and digital media for the Business Day and Arts sections. In 2013, I also published New York Times best-selling book, “Top of the Morning” where I examined the television rivalry between the Today Show and Good Morning America.Media and television have always been passions of mine, which took off during my freshman year at Towson University when I created TVNewser, a blog covering the television news industry which I later sold to MediaBistro. This endeavor proved to be the start of my exciting media career. Sign up to receive the Reliable Sources newsletter here to stay up to date on the latest in media.

Brian Whitman

Chief Scientist

I'm CEO & founder of Canopy, focusing on doing better at personalization. Canopy was acquired by CNN in March 2020, where I'm now focusing on privacy, personalization and connecting the world to things that matter. Previously was co-founder and CTO of the music intelligence platform The Echo Nest from 2005 until its acquisition by Spotify in 2014. The Echo Nest grew from our dissertations at MIT to 70 employees and powered the music intelligence for almost the entire industry over nine years. At Spotify I built their research team and focused on the next steps in music recommendation.

My background is in natural language processing (MS from Columbia in 2001), machine learning, information retrieval, recommendations and signal processing (PhD from MIT in 2005.) I work on various side projects around embedded audio hardware, speech processing and music.

Cal Perry

International Correspondent

Cal Perry is a Baghdad Bureau Chief at CNN and International Correspondent at CNN and is based in Washington d.c. Metro Area. He attended Skidmore College between 1997 and 2001.

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CNN founders

Name & TitleBio

Ted Turner

Founder

Reese Schonfeld

Founders

CNN board members

Name & TitleBio

Chris Licht

Board Member

CNN leadership demographics

CNN gender distribution in management team

The CNN executive team is 46% female and 54% male.
CNN is 48% female and 52% male company-wide.

Male

54%

Company-wide: 52%

Female

46%

Company-wide: 48%

CNN executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among CNN executive officers is White.
70% of the management team is White.
11% of CNN's management is Black or African American.
7% of the management team is Unknown.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
54% of employees are White.
18% of employees are Black or African American.
15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

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3.0

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Pros of working at CNN

it pays very well nowadays.

Cons of working at CNN

loss of mission (from where it started). frightened managers operating out of fear. fear of speaking up on behalf of many employees.

CNN benefits

high salary

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Updated November 18, 2022

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