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CNN Will Fire Even More Employees This December: Leaked CEO Memo

Major layoffs may be coming to CNN as soon as December, according to a leaked memo reportedly written by its CEO

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A leaked internal memo reportedly sent by CNN CEO Chris Licht reportedly reveals that the hyper-partisan cable network will fire even more employees this year as it faces lower revenue combined with fewer viewers.

The memo was apparently written by Licht in October after CNBC reported that the network’s revenue would drop below $1 billion for the first time since 2016.

Licht, the new CEO who fired major CNN personalities in his first year on the job in a reported attempt to shake the network’s left-wing brand, revealed that the network was in trouble in a subsequent memo sent to employees and now reportedly went public.

He warned that layoffs will “affect people, budgets, and projects,” reported The Daily Caller, before adding that it means visible changes to the network.

“There is widespread concern over the global economic outlook, and we must factor that risk into our long-term planning,” the CEO reportedly wrote in the memo, adding that “All this together will mean noticeable change to this organization.”

“That, by definition, is unsettling. These changes will not be easy because they will affect people, budgets, and projects.”

The memo came roughly one week before a company town hall where Licht confirms major layoffs will be coming, but did not comment on rumors that affected employees were already known by management.

Yesterday, meanwhile, Fox News reported that Licht was given the CEO slot at the network with the understanding he would be tasked with cutting $100 million in jobs to balance the network’s budget.

One insider told the conservative network that the network has “a lot of fat” from the Jeff Zucker era, and “these layoffs are probably necessary” to make the network competitive in the 2020s.

The rumored layoffs come as the networks’ ratings remain abysmal, with little sign of improvement.

Earlier this month, Adweek declared the network “in desperate need of a ratings jolt” and noted that it received a minor one thanks to its midterm coverage. However, the analysts added, ” CNN’s 2022 Midterms viewership was substantially down relative to previous midterms.”

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36 Comments

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    Richard Bruce

    November 22, 2022 at 11:02 am

    That’s a shame, bah hah hah.

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      boone1

      November 25, 2022 at 12:56 pm

      It won’t be long now when the only person reporting the news on cnn will be CNN CEO Chris Licht.

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      Ilsa

      November 26, 2022 at 12:53 am

      Like getting rid if an STD!

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      Linda Jackson

      November 26, 2022 at 10:52 am

      [ 𝑱𝑶𝑰𝑵 𝑼𝑺 ] 𝑰 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 $260 𝑼𝑺𝑫 𝒕𝒐 $1200 𝑼𝑺𝑫 𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒋𝒐𝒃 3 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 $21,000 𝑼𝑺𝑫 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔. 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆 …
      𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒐…………>>> 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐉𝐨𝐛𝟐𝟒𝟕.𝐜𝐨𝐦

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        Grizz Mann

        November 28, 2022 at 7:56 am

        Are you a FBI asset too?

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    Jen

    November 22, 2022 at 11:51 am

    I wonder how CNN keeps their doors open. I’ve heard for years they were on their last leg. I watch no msm including F0X and haven’t for at least ten years.

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      Philip Seth Hammersley

      November 25, 2022 at 12:26 pm

      They are called a “loss leader.” The parent company is rich enough to allow CNN to bleed!

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      StanB

      November 28, 2022 at 10:18 pm

      Their main office is in England, the US branch is a loser, so have to decide how long they will find the loses acceptable.

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    John

    November 22, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    This is so depressing the useful idiots at all the fake news outlets have providing the comedy clubs with so much material, they may go broke.

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    FCK Liberals

    November 23, 2022 at 7:39 am

    Pay back !!

    Community Realty Inc , and The Harrison Apartments in Reston Va. are Racists Against Conservatives !!

    Boycott !!

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    Larry!

    November 23, 2022 at 1:10 pm

    Happy holidays, here is your pink slip bonus!!!!

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    Rick

    November 25, 2022 at 4:49 am

    Long overdue. Too bad it’s about ratings and money instead of honest journalism.

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    Sunshine Kid

    November 25, 2022 at 5:03 am

    CNN: “Bah, HUMBUG!”

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    Russ

    November 25, 2022 at 6:01 am

    Licht is on the right track. If he doesn’t chicken out he could make cnn into a news organization again. JUST THE NEWS without the partisan spin and brainwashing would be a huge success. Especially since Fox has gone woke. Get back to reporting the news(like when you were founded) and people will watch.

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    dlmstl

    November 25, 2022 at 8:22 am

    The RC Cola of the MSM world. They’ll manage to hang around and attract enough of ‘perpetually happy to be unhappy’ crowd to be viable. We all know people like this, the dour, sour, forever feeling unappreciated, oppressed complainers. The current on air CNN personalities reflect this outlook.

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    Leanna

    November 25, 2022 at 8:26 am

    How sad that CNN made the decision to become a fake left wing propaganda, non-news organization, causing their own demise. Everyone is entitled to their own view, but placing all your eggs in the toxic liberal basket is very shortsighted. People get so gorged on nastiness that to save themselves from total destruction they have to throw it back up. I had just moved here from a country in Europe, and CNN broadcast something about the country I came from that was very one-sided and deceptive. I called them and told them, and within a couple of days they broadcast a program that told the story from the other point of view. If they had continued that way they would not be in such a mess now.

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      RSM4

      November 25, 2022 at 11:25 am

      You’re right. I occasionally watch a few minutes of CNN, just to see what they are doing. The new owner of CNN is changing things, and has gotten rid of Cuomo, Stelter and others. The CNN crew live in a 10 second echo chamber.
      In the 12 months before the take over, I noticed at least three times (there were probably more) CNN talking heads did 30 minute panel discussions on a topic that greatly disturbs them. The panels were comprised variously of Anderson Cooper, Acosta, Toobin, Stelter, Lemon, Bash, Tapper, Cillizza, Blitzer, Burnett, and others. They shared their outrage at being reminded of or confronted with their previous tweets, statements and actions. They call it “a dishonest, discredited, conservative tactic of what about-ism.” They ranted that it is not fair when anyone brings up what they tweeted, or said or did, and comparing it with what they are tweeting, saying or doing in front of a camera right now. They claim it undermines what they are trying to accomplish. Yep. It shows what liars and hypocrites they are.
      I lived in Europe (Denmark and Germany) a total of 13 years. Most of the MSM count on their American viewers living in the same 10 second echo chamber.

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    DrBillLemoine

    November 25, 2022 at 8:57 am

    Actually I stopped watching CNN years ago when over time several major reporters broadcasted outright lies for news reports. That is, except for Fareed. But he is no hyper-partisan for the left, just a global sensation reporter providing that scope of reporting to place the United States in its perspective worldwide. So I’m reacting mostly to a station report that I’m not familiar with for the most part. But it’s good that any mainstream media outlet reviews its editorial and financial and viewership policies regularly. If only the myriad of right wing extremist broadcasters would do the same, I wouldn’t have to unsubscribe to so many who send their tripe to my inbox without my lifting a finger to access them.

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      SLOJOE SUX

      November 28, 2022 at 8:01 am

      Hey QUACK boi! Your partisan rant didn’t include the left’s typical cop out, “White Supremacist” or “Racist”. Enjoying SLO JOE’s failures as a pResident??

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    Adonis

    November 25, 2022 at 9:31 am

    This is hard earned distinction. They’ve lied to their viewers for years in attempt to sway and indoctrinate, and now is harvest time. Woke = broke.

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    RSM4

    November 25, 2022 at 9:50 am

    The liberal CNN crew believe like AOC, that leftist/progressive talking point are actual facts.
    For instance, when she blew up the NYC Amazon deal, she claimed it was a great victory for “the people.” It would have brought 25,000 high paying jobs as well as all the economic boon to businesses in the surrounding community. And, AOC still thinks the $1.2B NY & NYC tax incentives offered to Amazon are a pile of cash. “..that we could invest in improving our (NYC) infrastructure if we wanted to.”
    Another note: In her first national interview with Anderson Cooper. Cooper asked AOC how she planned to pay for the Green New Deal. She said people at the “tippy top” will have to pay more taxes. Cooper did not ask her to identify that income level.

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      F-SLO JOE

      November 28, 2022 at 8:04 am

      “Bright Power, a big name in solar power fired their entire workforce after Ocasio-Cortez stuck her nose where it didn’t belong and convinced the solar workers to form a union. Now, rather than having full-time employees they’ve went back to the way that they used to do things which is to just subcontract the work out.”

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    Drosack

    November 25, 2022 at 9:55 am

    LOL

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    Daniel

    November 25, 2022 at 9:56 am

    Still, CNN made a billion dollars last year. Someone explain to me just how they did that.

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      BERN-OUT OBIDEN

      November 28, 2022 at 8:07 am

      The Tampax machines in Don Lemon’s restroom.

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    Philip Seth Hammersley

    November 25, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    CNN is like the FBI; they need to be torn down and totally rebuilt!

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    Peter York

    November 25, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    if you want to be a top executive, you have to be able to use words like ‘unsettling.’

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    alan

    November 25, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    remove them from the cable lineup. they are a waste of bandwidth

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    Ilsa

    November 26, 2022 at 12:52 am

    Circling the drain, the next flush you hear is all the guano going where it has belonged for many years. I live for the day Acosta and Lemon get flushed! Only reason they lasted this long is they bundle that trash and MSNBC into your cable bill. Hope Joe Scarborough and his very beastly wife are next on MSNBC to bite the dust.

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      General Bull Krapper

      November 27, 2022 at 8:42 am

      Yeah, Morning Schmoe & Squeaker have got to go.

      STAY WELL, SAFE, FREE & BRAVE!

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    Adonis

    November 26, 2022 at 8:49 am

    They lied long enough to antagonize most of their viewers until there is no one watching. I have no clue how they keep their lights on. Woke = broke.

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    Thorn

    November 28, 2022 at 7:56 am

    CNN = Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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    Bluto

    November 28, 2022 at 10:20 am

    Alisyn Bimborata, Briana Keillor, Jake Tapper, a few others, all have to go to make that Fake News organization even somewhat credible. They are all filthy liars.

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    Joseph Edelen

    November 29, 2022 at 9:27 am

    CNN, please hurry into bankruptcy…

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