CNN’s chairman, Chris Licht, has settled on a new leadership team for the network’s news and business sides, picking mostly from the ranks of insiders who worked for his predecessor.
In a memo to CNN’s 4,000 employees on Wednesday, Mr. Licht said Virginia Moseley would be CNN’s executive vice president of editorial, responsible for the bulk of the network’s TV and digital newsgathering.
The move consolidates the oversight of news. Ms. Moseley had been running the company’s TV newsgathering, while the digital news team was run by another executive. Some aspects of CNN’s digital report, including business coverage, features and interactive stories, will continue to be run by another executive, Wendy Brundige.
Mr. Licht added that several other news veterans at the network would retain top roles: Michael Bass, the executive vice president of programming; Amy Entelis, the…
