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Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media is a daring, deeply reported podcast series that tells the inside story of how a bold experiment in truth-telling became a driver of the fractured media landscape we live in today.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 15, 2026
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CNN’s Uncertain Next Era: New Owners, Shrinking Audiences—and AI Disruption (opens the original)
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Breaking the News: Deep Cuts is our interview series offering an early look at the reporting and questions behind our documentary podcast in development, Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media.CNN’s future suddenly looks less hypothetical. Twelve state attorneys general have settled their challenge to Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, including CNN. The agreement calls for a board to protect CNN’s editorial independen
From Chicken Noodle News to the Breaking News Network of Record (opens the original)
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Breaking the News: Deep Cuts is a recurring interview series that offers an early look at the reporting, questions, and through-lines behind our documentary podcast in development, Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media.In this Deep Cut conversation, we speak with Wendy Walker, who oversaw Larry King Live for nearly two decades and had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic interviews and breaking news coverage that played out during CNN’s rise to prominence. Walker left ABC Ne
CNN Helped Invent Always-On News. Then the Always-On Internet Took Over. (opens the original)
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Breaking the News: Deep Cuts is a recurring interview series that offers an early look at the reporting, questions, and through-lines behind our documentary podcast in development, Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media.In this Deep Cut conversation, we speak with Meredith Artley and S. Mitra Kalita, two former CNN Digital leaders who helped guide the organization through the growth—and turbulence—of the mobile-social-platform era.Donate to Bring this Story to Life<
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