Licht Named President of CNN

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As we first reported Monday, Connecticut native Chris Licht has been named as the next president and CEO of CNN.

Licht was there at the creation of Morning Joe on MSNBC, served as executive producer of CBS This Morning, and most recently as the show runner of the Late Show on CBS.

If all goes as planned, Licht will take charge in his new role in April when the merger between Discovery and CNN is complete.

There is speculation that one of his first moves will be to move CNN back toward traditional straight news and away from the more opinionated programming that has lately filled the network’s prime time hours. But The Laurel has been unable to independently confirm that speculation and it is offered here only as a reflection of the on-going conversation about American journalism as mediated through the news media writ large.