<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> appears set to name a new CEO in the coming days after the leftist network fired their last CEO over the summer following a damning profile piece and a town hall debacle involving former President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Puck News <a href="https://archive.ph/09h6T#selection-40947.0-41100.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that as early as tomorrow, CNN is expected to name former New York Times Company CEO and BBC director general Mark Thompson to be the network&#8217;s next chairman and CEO.</p>
<p>The report said that Thompson has a reputation for &#8220;restructuring legacy media assets and pursuing innovative growth strategies&#8221; and that he could not be more different than the network&#8217;s last CEO, Chris Licht.</p>
<p>Thompson &#8220;deftly architected a plan that rescued the business&#8221; at The New York Times &#8220;from its darkest financial hour in generations,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;His various restructurings and reorgs repositioned the Times Co. as a product-first company that successfully built out a portfolio of lifestyle businesses that supported the news gathering organization.&#8221;</p>
<p>Licht was fired from the company by Discovery CEO David Zaslav just 16 months after being picked for the position.</p>
<p>“For a number of reasons things didn’t work out and that’s unfortunate,” Zaslav said. “It’s really unfortunate. And ultimately that’s on me. And I take full responsibility for that.”</p>
<p>Zaslav told employees that CNN is “in the process of conducting a wide search” for a new leader that could “take a while.”</p>
<p>Licht’s tenure at CNN was rough from the start. Weeks after Licht took over the reins, the cable news giant’s attempt at launching a streaming service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> after a month in operation, attracting fewer than 10,000 daily users. The CNN executive also faced criticism from his employees and poor ratings performances in the news channel’s primetime slots.</p>
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<p>Familiar faces on the network, such as longtime journalist Brian Stelter and host Don Lemon, were axed under Licht’s reign. The tumultuous leadership of Licht came to a boiling point when the network hosted a town hall with former President Donald Trump in May. Leftist critics ripped the company for giving Trump a platform. Politicians and media personalities from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Joe Scarborough were angered by CNN’s decision to host Trump on the platform that has consistently offered friendly coverage to Democrats.</p>
<p><em>Zach Jewell contributed to this report. </em></p>

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