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CNN will dial down the partisanship and double down on its newsgathering under new chief Chris Licht, according to top sources.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav thinks ratings are more important than credibility.

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Jeff Zucker will be replaced at CNN by a man who knows his way around America's top control rooms.

  • Dylan Byers reported on the selection of Licht, a regular at Zaslav summer parties. The person will be named next week.

  • Colbert rose on his watch to become the most-watched network late-night show, with live shows for big news.

Zaslav is likely to push CNN back to hard news and away from liberal commentary.

  • The Discovery team is skeptical about the roster size for CNN+, a streaming service Zucker had been stocking with expensive talent.

According to a report, CNN was chasing prime-time ratings at the expense of the brand.

  • CNN should be moved back to the middle by Zaslav.

  • CNN at all hours will emphasize the type of indispensable coverage we have been seeing from Ukraine, a deployment built on Zucker's flood-the-zone, own-the story playbook, and hires including Clarissa Ward.

  • CNN has 28 international bureaus and 11 in the U.S. Zucker invested in CNN Digital, which has 200 million unique visitors a month.

Zucker ran an empire of 4,500. The domain may be smaller.

  • CNN+ is going to shrink before it even launches.

  • HLN, formerly Headline News, may be moved under the purview of a current Discovery executive.

  • An executive will head sports.

Sara Fischer is on Licht. His bio is here.

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  • The new president of CNN is expected to be an executive from CBS, who is currently running Stephen Colbert's late-night show. Before taking over as executive producer at Colbert's Late Show in 2016 he ran CBS This Morning, guiding it to the top of the ratings. David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery, made the choice of Licht, which is expected to take over WarnerMedia in a corporate deal that is pending approval.

  • A source familiar with the matter said on Saturday that Chris Licht will be CNN's next leader after the cable news channel is taken over by Discovery Inc. The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is an executive producer on the CBS network.

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