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CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’ Will Publish in Morning Amid Brian Stelter’s Return to Frenetic Field for Media-on-Media News


CNN's influential 'Reliable Sources' newsletter moves to morning publication, and chief analyst Brian Stelter vows to experiment with other concepts

Oliver Darcy, who took the reins of “RS” after Stelter was pushed out by previous CNN chief Chris Licht following a much-scrutinized decade-long run at the news outlet, recently launched his own independent media-news roundup, “Status.” On Sunday evening, that publication led with a Q&A with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who isn’t known for her yen for granting frequent interviews. The decision to move “RS” to mornings also means that Stelter and a team of CNN journalists devoted to media-industry coverage will have to vie more directly with other newsletters that also analyze the topic. By the end of his first tenure at CNN, Stelter was leading the show, the newsletter and a daily program that had been developed for CNN+, a subscription streaming venue that was scrapped after David Zaslav took the reins of a newly merged Warner Bros.

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