- Other top figures who were laid off include CNN reporters Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox, and Chris Cillizza, the report said.
- CNBC added that the network let go of “hundreds of staffers” out of the network’s roughly 4,400 employees.
- In memo to employees at the company, Licht said that the goal of the strategic review that led to the layoffs was to “better align our people, processes and resources with our future priorities, strengthen our ability to deliver on CNN’s core journalistic mission and enable us to innovate in the years ahead.”
