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Jim Acosta to Exit CNN to Pursue New Ventures
Jim Acosta intends to leave CNN to pursue his own journalism ventures after a programming shake-up left him without his daytime slot
Jim Acosta, the aggressive CNN correspondent who has gained notice for holding interview subjects to account from perches in the White House press room and on newsroom sets, is poised to leave the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet after a shake-up in its schedule that left him without anchoring duties during daytime hours. The show was described as an opportunity to open a new front that would deliver breaking news to viewers in California and overseas, but was also seen as a potential means of taking a veteran correspondent who has not been shy about pressing officials in the Trump administration out of the network’s main rotation. In an era when many media owners appear to be looking for ways to placate President Trump, who has shown a predilection for dragging companies such as Paramount Global and Disney into court to answer for reporting by CBS New and ABC News, Acosta could offer subscribers something they might perceive as being less available on traditional outlets.
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