By Kevin McCauley
Mark Whitaker, managing editor of CNN, is leaving the Time Warner unit network as new CEO Jeff Zucker puts his stamp on the cable news network.
In a memo, Whitaker wrote that Zucker “deserves his own team and management structure and the freedom to communicate one clear vision to the staff.”
Previously editor of Newsweek from `98 to `06, Whitaker took the CNN spot in Jan. 2001.
Whitaker called Zucker, former CEO of NBC Universal, a new leader with his own forceful ideas about where to take CNN’s reporting, programming and brand.”
He “shared that conclusion with him, and he has agreed to let me step down as managing editor and move on from CNN.”
The pundit husband and wife team of James Carville and Mary Matalin also is leaving with conservative talking head Erik Erickson, editor of redstate.com. |