CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Chris Licht has stepped down from the media company, effective immediately, CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery revealed this.
Warner Bros said that it put in place an interim leadership team including Amy Entelis, EVP of talent and content development; Virginia Moseley, EVP of editorial; and Eric Sherling, EVP of US programming, as well as David Leavy, chief operating officer, on the commercial side.
Before his sack, Licht had been in the job for just 13 months.
The move comes less than a week after the Atlantic magazine published a critical report about Licht.
Licht was criticized for the network’s decision to broadcast a May 10 town hall with former Republican President Donald Trump, during which Trump repeated falsehoods about his 2020 election loss, said that if elected he would pardon many supporters convicted of taking part in a Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and called CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins a “nasty person.”
