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Veteran Media Critic Brian Lowry to Exit CNN Amid Layoffs
Brian Lowry, the veteran media critic and columnist, is leaving CNN as part of layoffs enacted at the Warner Bros. Discovery news outlet
Brian Lowry, the veteran Hollywood scribe and media critic who has worked at CNN as a senior writer since 2016, is set to exit the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet as part of a group of layoffs unveiled Wednesday. Lowry holds deep knowledge of the television and studio business and an ability to discuss it with both wit and concision, qualities that have buoyed him over a long career also spent at Variety and The Los Angeles Times. In recent weeks, he has reviewed both the newest season of “The Bear” and the Pixar film “Inside Out 2”; written an obituary for actor Donald Sutherland; and offered new insight into the latest front in the the industry’s so-called “streaming wars” — a new turn toward the same type of bunding that benefitted cable.
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