CNN’s newly appointed chairman Mark Thompson warned staffers at the ratings-challenged cable news outlet that the broadcast news industry was “approaching peak disruption” — as the rank and file moaned that “morale is in the sh-tter’ due to the turnover at the top.
Thompson, the former New York Times and BBC boss who will take over CNN on Oct. 9, fired off a memo to the network’s 4,000-strong workforce on Wednesday in which he described the challenges facing the network.
“We face pressure from every direction — structural, political, cultural, you name it,” he wrote in the memo, the contents of which were reported by the Financial Times.
“Where others see threat, I see opportunity.”
Thompson’s main challenge will be to boost the network’s sagging ratings, which are dwarfed by those of rivals Fox News and MSNBC.
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