Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news-based
pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting
System, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
CNN was founded in 1980 by American media
proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news
channel.
Upon its launch, CNN was the first television
channel to provide 24-hour news coverage,
and was the first all-news television channel
in the United States.While the news channel
has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts
from the Time Warner Center in New York City,
and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta
is only used for weekend programming.
CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or
CNN Domestic) to distinguish the American
channel from its international sister network,
CNN International.
As of August 2010, CNN is available in over
100 million U.S. households.
Broadcast coverage of the U.S. channel extends
to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well
as carriage on subscription providers throughout
Canada.
As of July 2015, CNN is available to about
96,374,000 pay-television households (82.8%
of households with at least one television
set) in the United States.
Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN
International, which can be seen by viewers
in over 212 countries and territories.
== History ==
=== 
Early history ===
The Cable News Network was launched at 5:00
p.m. Eastern Time on June 1, 1980.
After an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband
and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart
anchored the channel's first newscast.
Burt Reinhardt, the executive vice president
of CNN at its launch, hired most of the channel's
first 200 employees, including the network's
first news anchor, Bernard Shaw.Since its
debut, CNN has expanded its reach to a number
of cable and satellite television providers,
several websites, and specialized closed-circuit
channels (such as CNN Airport).
The company has 42 bureaus (11 domestic, 31
international), more than 900 affiliated local
stations (which also receive news and features
content via the video newswire service CNN
Newsource), and several regional and foreign-language
networks around the world.
The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul
of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for
conglomerate Time Warner's eventual acquisition
of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996.A
companion channel, CNN2, was launched on January
1, 1982 and featured a continuous 24-hour
cycle of 30-minute news broadcasts.
The channel, which later became known as CNN
Headline News and is now known as simply HLN,
eventually focused on live news coverage supplemented
by personality-based programs during the evening
and primetime hours.
=== Major events ===
==== 
Gulf War ====
The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed
event for CNN that catapulted the channel
past the "Big Three" American networks for
the first time in its history, largely due
to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN
was the only news outlet with the ability
to communicate from inside Iraq during the
initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign,
with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel
in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John
Holliman and Peter Arnett.
The moment when bombing began was announced
on CNN by Shaw on January 16, 1991, as follows:
This is Bernie Shaw.
Something is happening outside.
... Peter Arnett, join me here.
Let's describe to our viewers what we're seeing...
The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated.
... We're seeing bright flashes going off
all over the sky.
Unable to immediately broadcast live pictures
from Baghdad, CNN's coverage of the initial
hours of the Gulf War had the dramatic feel
of a radio broadcast – and was compared
to legendary CBS news anchor Edward R. Murrow's
gripping live radio reports of the German
bombing of London during World War II.
Despite the lack of live pictures, CNN's coverage
was carried by television stations and networks
around the world, resulting in CNN being watched
by over a billion viewers worldwide.The Gulf
War experience brought CNN some much sought-after
legitimacy and made household names of previously
obscure reporters.
In 2000, media scholar and director of the
Center for the Study of Popular Television
at Syracuse University, Robert Thompson, stated
that having turned 20, CNN was now the "old
guard."
Shaw, known for his live-from-Bagdhad reporting
during the Gulf War, became CNN's chief anchor
until his retirement in 2001.
Others include then-Pentagon correspondent
Wolf Blitzer (now host of The Situation Room)
and international correspondent Christiane
Amanpour.
Amanpour's presence in Iraq was caricatured
by actress Nora Dunn as ruthless reporter
Adriana Cruz in the 1999 film Three Kings.
Time Warner-owned sister network HBO later
produced a television movie, Live from Baghdad,
about CNN's coverage of the first Gulf War.Coverage
of the first Gulf War and other crises of
the early 1990s (particularly the infamous
Battle of Mogadishu) led officials at the
Pentagon to coin the term "the CNN effect"
to describe the perceived impact of real time,
24-hour news coverage on the decision-making
processes of the American government.
==== September 11 attacks ====
CNN was the first cable news channel to break
the news of the September 11 attacks.
Anchor Carol Lin was on the air to deliver
the first public report of the event.
She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m.
Eastern Time that morning and said:This just
in.
You are looking at obviously a very disturbing
live shot there.
That is the World Trade Center, and we have
unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane
has crashed into one of the towers of the
World Trade Center.
CNN Center right now is just beginning to
work on this story, obviously calling our
sources and trying to figure out exactly what
happened, but clearly something relatively
devastating happening this morning there on
the south end of the island of Manhattan.
That is once again, a picture of one of the
towers of the World Trade Center.
Sean Murtagh, CNN vice president of finance
and administration, was the first network
employee on the air.
He called into CNN Center from his office
at CNN's New York City bureau and reported
that a commercial jet had hit the Trade Center.Daryn
Kagan and Leon Harris were live on the air
just after 9:00 a.m.
Eastern Time as the second plane hit the North
Tower of the World Trade Center and through
an interview with CNN correspondent David
Ensor, reported the news that U.S. officials
determined "that this is a terrorist act."
Later, Aaron Brown and Judy Woodruff anchored
through the day and night as the attacks unfolded,
winning an Edward R. Murrow award for the
network.
Brown had just joined CNN from ABC to serve
as the breaking news anchor.
CNN has made archival files of much of the
day's broadcast available in five segments,
plus an overview.
==== 2008 U.S. election ====
Leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election,
CNN devoted large amounts of its coverage
to politics, including hosting candidate debates
during the Democratic and Republican primary
seasons.
On June 3 and 5, CNN teamed up with Saint
Anselm College to sponsor the New Hampshire
Republican and Democratic Debates.
Later in 2007, the channel hosted the first
CNN/YouTube presidential debates, a non-traditional
format where viewers were invited to pre-submit
questions over the internet via the YouTube
video-sharing service.
In 2008, CNN partnered with the Los Angeles
Times to host two primary debates leading
up to its coverage of Super Tuesday.
CNN's debate and election night coverage led
to its highest ratings of the year, with January
2008 viewership averaging 1.1 million viewers,
a 41% increase over the previous year.
==== 2016 U.S. election ====
Driven by live coverage of the year's US presidential
election, 2016 was CNN's most-watched year
in its history.
Throughout the campaign, the network aired
unedited coverage of many of the Trump campaign
rallies.
Aides for Republican candidates Marco Rubio,
Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz accused CNN President
Jeff Zucker of undermining their candidates
during the Republican primaries.
After the election, Zucker acknowledged that
it was a mistake to air so many of the campaign
rallies.
CNN also drew criticism during the election
for hiring former Trump campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski, who was still being paid by and
was effectively working on behalf of the campaign.
=== Trump presidency, AT&T subsidiary ===
The presidency of Donald Trump has led to
many prominent controversies involving CNN.
The network was accused by critics of giving
disproportionate amounts of coverage to Donald
Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
CNN president Jeff Zucker defended CNN against
the criticism, commenting that out of the
Republican candidates, Trump was the most
willing to give on-air interviews.
Trump commented upon the allegations during
his speech at the 2017 Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC), jokingly referring
to CNN as the "Clinton News Network".In January
2017, CNN reported that Trump had been briefed
on a classified dossier which detailed compromising
personal and financial information allegedly
obtained by the Russian government.
While CNN did not publish the dossier, Trump
criticized the network during a press conference
the following day, and refused to take a question
from CNN reporter Jim Acosta, claiming that
the network was "fake news".
On June 26, 2017, CNN investigative journalists
Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris
voluntarily resigned after the network retracted
an online article which incorrectly connected
Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci to a $10 billion
Russian investment fund.
The network apologized to Scaramucci and admitted
that the online story did not meet their editorial
standards.
Zucker responded by stressing that the network
needs to "play error-free ball" when it comes
to any future stories about Trump.In July
2017, Trump posted a video on Twitter of himself
tackling Vince McMahon on the ground during
WrestleMania 23, edited to replace McMahon's
face with the CNN logo.
The clip was considered to be a further expression
of his opinions regarding the network's quality
of coverage.
Several media columnists and Democratic politicians
condemned the retweeted video, concerned that
its substance—given the tone of some of
Trump's criticism of mainstream media outlets
for what he deems as unfavorable coverage
of him and his presidency—could encourage
some of his extreme right-wing supporters
to commit violence against journalists from
outlets outside of the conservative media
spectrum.
Later that month, a group of Democratic United
States Senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, issued
a request for information over allegations
that the Trump administration was planning
to use CNN as "leverage for political gain"
in the process of clearing the proposed acquisition
of its parent company Time Warner by AT&T—a
purchase which was first announced in October
2016.
The Daily Caller reported that, in particular,
the administration was seeking the removal
of Jeff Zucker as CNN president.
Although Trump had promised to block the acquisition
entirely during his presidential campaign,
Trump's transition team later stated that
the government planned to evaluate the deal
without prejudice.Following the announcement
of the acquisition, AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson
stated that the company was "committed to
continuing the editorial independence of CNN".
In August 2017, Deadline Hollywood reported
that AT&T had considered spinning off CNN
and its stake in TMZ post-acquisition.
In October 2017, Stephenson downplayed the
possibility that the ongoing tensions between
Trump and CNN could affect the deal, stating
that he "[didn't] know what the relevance
of CNN is in terms of an antitrust review",
and that AT&T did not plan to make managerial
changes to Time Warner properties that were
operating well, such as CNN.
Later that month, CNN launched a new promotional
campaign, "Facts First", in an effort to combat
negative perceptions over the quality of its
reporting.
Using an apple to demonstrate metaphors for
fake news and "alternative facts" (in particular,
suggesting that one could persistently opine
that the apple was actually a banana), the
ads publicize a commitment to prioritizing
accurate, fact-based reporting before presenting
opinions on a particular story.
The ad became the subject of parodies, including
one by The Daily Caller (which reversed the
ad, and amended the slogan with "unless we
are reporting on Trump"), and Stephen Colbert
(which closed with the line "Now orange you
ready to impeach?"), and was criticized by
conservative publishers, Republican politicians,
and on social media.On November 6, 2017, Stephenson
met with Makan Delrahim, assistant Attorney
General of the United States Department of
Justice Antitrust Division, to discuss antitrust
and concentration of media ownership concerns
surrounding the acquisition, and possible
options for satisfying them.
Two days later, major media outlets publicly
reported that the Justice Department had recommended
that either the entire Turner Broadcasting
System unit, or DirecTV, be divested as a
condition of the merger.
The Financial Times went further, stating
that it had specifically demanded the divestment
of CNN. Stephenson denied these reports, stating
that he never offered to, nor had any intentions
to sell CNN.
CNN's media analyst Brian Stelter noted that
media outlets were interpreting the alleged
recommendations as being either a genuine
concern for AT&T's scale following the merger,
or a retaliatory measure by the Trump administration
against CNN.At the DealBook conference in
New York City the next day, Stephenson denied
that the Department had demanded the divestment
of CNN at all (stating that he had "never
been told that the price of getting the deal
done was selling CNN"), and that the company
aimed to "get to a negotiated settlement".
However, he stated that if they were unable
to do so, AT&T was "prepared to litigate".
In a statement to CNBC, a Department of Justice
official backed Stephenson, denying that there
were any specific demands to divest CNN during
the discussion, and considering the claims
to be "shocking" and an attempt to politicize
the situation.
The official added that the Department had
officially recommended either abandoning the
deal entirely, or divesting DirecTV or Turner,
but that it was open to other options for
quelling antitrust concerns.
The same day, the watchdog group Protect Democracy
sued the Department of Justice to seek information
on whether the Trump administration had "improperly
interfered with the Department's review of
the merger between AT&T and Time Warner, or
has acted in that matter based on the President's
personal dislike of CNN's protected speech."
The group had issued a Freedom of Information
Act request for these details, but the Department
had not responded.
On November 20, 2017, the Department of Justice
filed an antitrust lawsuit over the acquisition.
The proposed merger was affirmed on June 12,
2018, after District of Columbia U.S. District
Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled in favor
of AT&T in the lawsuit.
The merger closed two days later, with the
company becoming a wholly owned subsidiary
of AT&T under the renamed parent company WarnerMedia.
== Programming ==
CNN's current weekday schedule consists mostly
of rolling news programming during daytime
hours, followed by in-depth news and information
programs during the evening and primetime
hours.
The network's morning programming consists
of Early Start, an early-morning news program
hosted by Christine Romans and Dave Briggs
at 4–6 a.m. ET, which is followed by New
Day, the network's morning show, hosted by
Alisyn Camerota and John Berman at 6–9 a.m.
ET.
Most of CNN's late-morning and early afternoon
programming consists of CNN Newsroom, a rolling
news program hosted by Jim Sciutto and Poppy
Harlow in the morning and Brooke Baldwin in
the afternoon.
In between the editions of Newsroom, At This
Hour with Kate Bolduan airs at 11 a.m. to
noon Eastern, followed by Inside Politics
with John King, hosted by John King at noon
Eastern, and CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar
at 1 p.m. Eastern.CNN's late afternoon and
early evening lineup consists of The Lead
with Jake Tapper, hosted by Jake Tapper at
4 p.m. Eastern and The Situation Room with
Wolf Blitzer, hosted by Wolf Blitzer at 5–7
p.m. ET.
The network's evening and primetime lineup
shifts towards more in-depth programming,
including Erin Burnett OutFront at 7 p.m.
ET, and Anderson Cooper 360° at 8 p.m. ET,
followed by Cuomo Prime Time with Chris Cuomo
at 9 p.m., and CNN Tonight hosted by Don Lemon
at 10 p.m. Eastern.
Overnight programming consists of reruns of
the primetime lineup, and an overnight simulcast
of the CNN International version of CNN Newsroom
from Atlanta, GA.
Weekend primetime is dedicated mostly to factual
programming, such as documentary-style reality
series (including Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown and United Shades of America), along
with original based documentaries and specials
(including those presented under blanket titles
such as CNN Presents and CNN Special Investigations
Unit), as well as acquired documentary films
presented under the banner CNN Films.
The network's weekend morning programming
consists of CNN Newsroom (simulcast from CNN
International) at 4–6 a.m. ET, which is
followed by the weekend editions of New Day,
hosted by Christi Paul and Victor Blackwell,
which airs every Saturday at 6–9 a.m. ET
and Sunday at 6–8 a.m. ET and the network's
Saturday program Smerconish with Michael Smerconish
at 9 a.m.
Eastern and replay at 6 p.m. Eastern.
Sunday morning lineup consists primarily of
political talk shows, including Inside Politics
with John King, hosted by John King at 8 a.m.
Eastern and State of the Union, hosted by
Jake Tapper at 9 a.m.
Eastern and replay at noon Eastern, and the
international affairs program Fareed Zakaria
GPS, hosted by Fareed Zakaria at 10 a.m.
Eastern and replay at 1 p.m. Eastern, and
the media analysis program Reliable Sources,
hosted by Brian Stelter at 11 a.m.
Eastern.
For the 2014–15 season, after cancelling
Piers Morgan Tonight (which, itself, replaced
the long-running Larry King Live), CNN experimented
with running factual and reality-style programming
during the 9:00 p.m. ET hour, such as John
Walsh's The Hunt, This Is Life with Lisa Ling,
and Mike Rowe's Somebody's Gotta Do It.
Jeff Zucker explained that this new lineup
was intended to shift CNN away from a reliance
on pundit-oriented programs, and attract younger
demographics to the network.
Zucker stated that the 9:00 p.m. hour could
be pre-empted during major news events for
expanded coverage.
These changes coincided with the introduction
of a new imaging campaign for the network,
featuring the slogan "Go there".
In May 2014, CNN premiered The Sixties, a
documentary miniseries produced by Tom Hanks
and Gary Goetzman which chronicled the United
States in the 1960s.
Owing to its success, CNN commissioned follow-ups
focusing on other decades.
Anderson Cooper 360° has since been expanded
back into a two-hour format to occupy the
8-9 p.m. timeslot.
=== On-air presentation ===
CNN began broadcasting in the high definition
1080i resolution format in September 2007.
This format is now standard for CNN and is
available on all major cable and satellite
providers.
CNN's political coverage in HD was first given
mobility by the introduction of the CNN Election
Express bus in October 2007.
The Election Express vehicle, capable of five
simultaneous HD feeds, was used for the channel's
CNN-YouTube presidential debates and for presidential
candidate interviews.In December 2008, CNN
introduced a comprehensive redesign of its
on-air appearance, which replaced an existing
style that had been used since 2004.
On-air graphics took a rounded, flat look
in a predominantly black, white, and red color
scheme, and the introduction of a new box
next to the CNN logo for displaying show logos
and segment-specific graphics, rather than
as a large banner above the lower-third.
The redesign also replaced the scrolling ticker
with a static "flipper", which could either
display a feed of news headlines (both manually
inserted and taken from the RSS feeds of CNN.com),
or "topical" details related to a story.CNN's
next major redesign was introduced on January
10, 2011, replacing the dark, flat appearance
of the 2008 look with a glossier, blue and
white color scheme, and moving the secondary
logo box to the opposite end of the screen.
Additionally, the network began to solely
produce its programming in the 16:9 aspect
ratio, with standard definition feeds using
a letterboxed version of the HD feed.
On February 18, 2013, the "flipper" was dropped
and reverted to a scrolling ticker; originally
displayed as a blue background with white
text, the ticker was reconfigured a day later
with blue text on a white background to match
the look of the 'flipper'.On August 11, 2014,
CNN introduced its most recent graphics package,
dropping the glossy appearance for a flat,
rectangular scheme incorporating red, white,
and black colors, and the Gotham typeface.
The ticker now alternates between general
headlines and financial news from CNNMoney,
and the secondary logo box was replaced with
a smaller box below the CNN bug, which displays
either the title, hashtag, or Twitter handle
for the show being aired or its anchor.
In April 2016, CNN began to introduce a new
corporate typeface, known as "CNN Sans", across
all of its platforms.
Inspired by Helvetica Neue and commissioned
after consultations with Troika Design Group,
the font family consists of 30 different versions
with varying weights and widths to facilitate
use across print, television, and digital
mediums.In August 2016, CNN announced the
launch of its new initiative, CNN Aerial Imagery
and Reporting (CNN AIR).
It is a drone-based news collecting operation
to integrate aerial imagery and reporting
across all CNN branches and platforms, along
with Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner entities.
== Staff ==
On July 27, 2012, CNN president Jim Walton
announced he was resigning after 30 years
at the network.
Walton remained with CNN until the end of
that year.
In January 2013, former NBCUniversal President
Jeff Zucker replaced Walton.On January 29,
2013, longtime political analysts James Carville
and Mary Matalin, and fellow political contributor
Erick Erickson were let go by CNN.
== Other platforms ==
=== Online ===
CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially
known as CNN Interactive), on August 30, 1995.
The site attracted growing interest over its
first decade and is now one of the most popular
news websites in the world.
The widespread growth of blogs, social media
and user-generated content have influenced
the site, and blogs in particular have focused
CNN's previously scattershot online offerings,
most noticeably in the development and launch
of CNN Pipeline in late 2005.
In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place
among online global news sites in unique users
in the U.S., according to Nielsen/NetRatings;
with an increase of 11% over the previous
year.CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription
service, its corresponding website, and a
content delivery client that provided streams
of live video from up to four sources (or
"pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories
and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts"
to computer users.
The installable client was available to users
of PCs running Microsoft Windows.
There was also a browser-based "web client"
that did not require installation.
The service was discontinued in July 2007,
and was replaced with a free streaming service.The
topical news program Judy Woodruff's Inside
Politics was the first CNN program to feature
a round-up of blogs in 2005.
Blog coverage was expanded when Inside Politics
was folded into The Situation Room (Inside
Politics later returned to CNN in 2014, this
time hosted by the network's chief national
correspondent John King.).
In 2006, CNN launched CNN Exchange and CNN
iReport, initiatives designed to further introduce
and centralize the impact of everything from
blogging to citizen journalism within the
CNN brand.
CNN iReport which features user-submitted
photos and video, has achieved considerable
traction, with increasingly professional-looking
reports filed by amateur journalists, many
still in high school or college.
The iReport gained more prominence when observers
of the Virginia Tech shootings sent-in first
hand photos of what was going on during the
shootings.In early 2008, CNN began maintaining
a live streaming broadcast available to cable
and satellite subscribers who receive CNN
at home (a precursor to the TV Everywhere
services that would become popularized by
cable and satellite providers beginning with
Time Warner's incorporation of the medium).
CNN International is broadcast live, as part
of the RealNetworks SuperPass subscription
service outside the U.S. CNN also offers several
RSS feeds and podcasts.
On April 18, 2008, CNN.com was targeted by
Chinese hackers in retaliation for the channel's
coverage on the 2008 Tibetan unrest.
CNN reported that they took preventative measures
after news broke of the impending attack.The
company was honored at the 2008 Technology
& Engineering Emmy Awards for development
and implementation of an integrated and portable
IP-based live, edit and store-and-forward
digital news gathering (DNG) system.
The first use of what would later win CNN
this award was in April 2001 when CNN correspondent
Lisa Rose Weaver covered, and was detained,
for the release of the U.S. Navy crew of a
damaged electronic surveillance plane after
the Hainan Island incident.
The technology consisted of a videophone produced
by 7E Communications Ltd of London, UK.
This DNG workflow is used today by the network
to receive material worldwide using an Apple
MacBook Pro, various prosumer and professional
digital cameras, software from Streambox Inc.,
and BGAN terminals from Hughes Network Systems.On
October 24, 2009, CNN launched a new version
of the CNN.com website; the revamped site
included the addition of a new "sign up" option,
in which users can create their own username
and profile, and a new "CNN Pulse" (beta)
feature, along with a new red color theme.
However, most of the news stories archived
on the website were deleted.
As of 2016, there are four versions of the
website: the American version, the International
version, the Spanish version, and the Arabic
version.
Readers can choose their preferred version,
but, in the absence of a selection, the server
determines an edition according to the requesting
IP address.CNN also has a channel in the popular
video-sharing site YouTube, but its videos
can only be viewed in the United States, a
source of criticism among YouTube users worldwide.
In 2014, CNN launched a radio version of their
popular Television programming on TuneIn Radio.In
April 2010, CNN announced via Twitter that
it would launch a food blog called "Eatocracy,"
which will "cover all news related to food
– from recalls to health issues to culture."
CNN had an internet relay chat (IRC) network
at chat.cnn.com.
CNN placed a live chat with Benjamin Netanyahu
on the network in 1998.CNNHealth consists
of expert doctors answering viewers' questions
online at CNN's "The Chart" blog website.
Contributors include Drs. Sanjay Gupta (Chief
Medical Correspondent), Charles Raison (Mental
Health Expert), Otis Brawley (Conditions Expert),
Melina Jampolis (Diet and Fitness Expert),
Jennifer Shu (Living Well Expert), and Elizabeth
Cohen (Senior Medical Correspondent).On March
7, 2017, CNN announced the official launch
of its virtual reality unit named CNNVR.
It will produce 360 videos to its Android
and iOS apps within CNN Digital.
It is planning to cover major news events
with the online, and digital news team in
New York City, Atlanta, London, Hong Kong,
San Francisco, Dubai, Johannesburg, Tokyo,
and Beijing.CNN also maintains a wire service
known as CNN Wire.
==== Newsource ====
CNN Newsource is a subscription-based affiliation
video service that provides CNN content to
television station affiliates with CNN, including
terrestrial stations and international stations.
Newsource allows affiliates to download video
from CNN, as well as from other affiliates
who upload their video to Newsource.
=== Beme ===
On November 28, 2016, CNN announced the acquisition
of Beme for a reported $25 million.
On November 29, 2016, Matt Hackett, co-founder
of Beme, announced via an email to its users
that the Beme app would be shutting down on
January 31, 2017.
Since the shutdown of the app, it was announced
that CNN intended to use the current talent
behind Beme to work on a separate start-up
endeavor.
Beme's current team will retain full creative
control of the new project, which was slated
to release in summer 2017.
Beme have also brought on other internet stars
such as the host of Vsauce 3, Jake Roper,
as head of production, who features prominently
in Beme co-founder Casey Neistat's vlogs.
Beme News has since begun uploading news related
video on YouTube
=== 
Films ===
In October 2012, CNN formed a film division
called CNN Films to distribute and produce
made-for-TV and feature documentaries.
Its first acquisition was a documentary entitled
Girl Rising, a documentary narrated by Meryl
Streep that focused on the struggles of girls'
education.
=== Radio ===
In July 2014, Cumulus Media announced that
it would end its partnership with ABC News
Radio, and enter into a new partnership with
CNN to syndicate national and international
news content for its stations through Westwood
One beginning in 2015, including access to
a wire service, and digital content for its
station websites.
This service is unbranded, allowing individual
stations to integrate the content with their
own news brands.
== Specialized channels ==
Over the years, CNN has launched spin-off
networks in the United States and other countries.
Channels that currently operate as of 2014
include:
CNN Airport
CNN Chile – a Chilean news channel that
launched on December 4, 2008.
CNN en Español
CNN International
CNN TÜRK – a Turkish media outlet.
CNN-News18 – an Indian news channel.
CNN Indonesia – an Indonesian news channel
that launched on August 17, 2015.
(co-owned with Trans Corp)
CNNj – a Japanese news outlet.
CNN Philippines – a Filipino news channel
launched on March 16, 2015.
HLN
=== Former channels ===
CNN has also launched television and online
ventures that are no longer in operation,
including:
CNN Checkout Channel (out-of-home place-based
custom channel for grocery stores that started
in 1991 and shuttered in 1993)
CNN Italia (an Italian news website launched
in partnership with the publishing company
Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, and after with
the financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, it
launched on November 15, 1999 and closed on
September 12, 2003)
CNN Pipeline (24-hour multi-channel broadband
online news service, replaced with CNN.com
Live)
CNN Sports Illustrated (also known as CNNSI;
U.S. sports news channel, closed in 2002)
CNN+ (a partner channel in Spain, launched
in 1999 with Sogecable)
CNN.com Live
CNNfn (financial channel, closed in December
2004)
=== Experiments ===
CNN launched two specialty news channels for
the American market which would later close
amid competitive pressure: the sports news
channel CNNSI shut down in 2002, while business
news channel CNNfn shut down after nine years
on the air in December 2004.
CNN had a partnership with Sports Illustrated
through the sports website CNNSI.com, but
sold the domain name in May 2015.
CNNfn's former website now redirects to money.cnn.com,
a product of CNN's strategic partnership with
Money magazine.
Money and Sports Illustrated were both Time
Warner properties until 2014, when the company's
magazine division was spun off into the separate
Time Inc.
== Bureaus ==
CNN operates bureaus in the following cities
as of February 2017.
Boldface indicates that the city is home to
one of CNN's original bureaus, meaning it
has been in operation since the network's
founding.
=== United States ===
Atlanta (World Headquarters)
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
San Francisco
Washington, D.C.
=== Worldwide ===
CNN has regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi,
Hong Kong, and London.
Other bureau locations include:
In parts of the world without a CNN bureau,
reports from local affiliate station the network
will be used to file a story.
== Controversies ==
In a joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center
on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard
University and the Project for Excellence
in Journalism, the authors found disparate
treatment by the three major cable channels
of Republican and Democratic candidates during
the earliest five months of presidential primaries
in 2007:
The CNN programming studied tended to cast
a negative light on Republican candidates
– by a margin of three-to-one.
Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative
while just 14% were positive and 46% were
neutral.
The network provided negative coverage of
all three main candidates with McCain faring
the worst (63% negative) and Romney faring
a little better than the others only because
a majority of his coverage was neutral.
It's not that Democrats, other than Obama,
fared well on CNN either.
Nearly half of the Illinois Senator's stories
were positive (46%), vs. just 8% that were
negative.
But both Clinton and Edwards ended up with
more negative than positive coverage overall.
So while coverage for Democrats overall was
a bit more positive than negative, that was
almost all due to extremely favorable coverage
for Obama.
CNN President Walter Isaacson met with Republican
Party leaders in Washington, DC in 2001 saying
afterwards "I was trying to reach out to a
lot of Republicans who feel that CNN has not
been as open covering Republicans, and I wanted
to hear their concerns," As CNN founder Ted
Turner stated, "There really isn't much of
a point getting some Tom, Dick or Harry off
the streets to report on when we can snag
a big name whom everyone identifies with.
After all, it's all part of the business."
However, in April 2008, Turner criticized
the direction that CNN has taken.In October
2016, WikiLeaks published emails from John
Podesta which showed CNN contributor Donna
Brazile passing the questions for a CNN-sponsored
debate to the Clinton campaign.
In the email, Brazile discussed her concern
of Clinton's ability to field a question regarding
the death penalty.
The following day Clinton would receive the
question about the death penalty, verbatim
from an audience member at the CNN-hosted
Town Hall event.
According to a CNNMoney investigation, the
debate moderator Roland Martin of TV One "did
not deny sharing information with Brazile."
CNN severed ties with Brazile three days later,
on October 14, 2016.
== Awards and honors ==
2018: CNN won a network-record six news & documentary
Emmy Awards.
They are, Outstanding Breaking News Coverage,
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News
Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Live Interview,
Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast,
Outstanding News Special, Outstanding Science,
Medical and Environmental Report.2018: CNN's
Nima Elbagir to receive 2018 Courage in Journalism
Award from the International Women's Media
Foundation.2018: CNN received the George Polk
Award for Foreign Television Reporting for
uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction
of African refugees in Libya.
Reporting done by Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek.2018:
CNN received the Overseas Press Club of America
David Kaplan Award for best TV or video spot
news reporting from abroad for reporting on
the fall of ISIS.
Reporting done by Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa
Damon.2017: CNN received the Prince Rainier
III Special Prize at Monte Carlo TV Festival
for the documentary, Midway: A Plastic Island
about sea pollution.1998: CNN received the
Four Freedom Award for the Freedom of Speech.
== See also
