Every move he made seemed to backfire.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/

CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/13ydq4a/inside_the_meltdown_at_cnn_ceo_chris_licht_felt/) to restore the network's reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qvUJ3Wii4DAJ:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D0d6e0cf773af54c8:TM%3D1685765300:C%3Dr:IP%3D2600:1700:e840:3ec0:3cf1:b2aa:2e7c:e7f-:S%3DaH0QMoGUG958vS25XlAOHVA%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DSat,+03-Jun-2023+07:08:20+GMT)?

CNN boss Chris Licht ousted after tumultuous 13-month tenure (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cnn-ceo-chris-licht-ousted-after-tumultuous-tenure#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20CNN,confidence%20of%20the%20network's%20journalists.)

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN ousted (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/143cf3w/chris_licht_is_out_at_cnn/) chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he'd lost the confidence of the network's journalists.

CNN boss Chris Licht ousted after tumultuous 13-month tenure (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cnn-ceo-chris-licht-ousted-after-tumultuous-tenure#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20CNN,confidence%20of%20the%20network's%20journalists.)

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN ousted (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/143cf3w/chris_licht_is_out_at_cnn/) chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he'd lost the confidence of the network's journalists.


Was everybody – including David Zaslav — out to get Chris Licht? Was the fired CNN boss a mark all along? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/cnn-chris-licht-fired-jeff-zucker.html)

Firing Chris Licht won't fix CNN (https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/7/23752618/cnn-chris-licht-david-zaslav-discovery-cable-news-fox-msnbc-television-news-peter-kafka-on-media)

Opinion Chris Licht is out, and so is CNN's centrist folly (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/chris-licht-cnn-centrist-politics/)

A Timeline of Chris Licht's Shaky Tenure at CNN (https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/a-timeline-of-chris-lichts-shaky-tenure-at-cnn/)

The demise of CNN (https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-cnn)