NEWS
By DAVID ZURAWIK | November 27, 2008
It would be hard to find a better lineup of celebrity performers or a bigger TV event tonight than the second annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute that honors ordinary people who have achieved extraordinary accomplishments in their communities and beyond. The program, which is hosted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, will be broadcast to a global audience starting tonight at 9. Alicia Keys and John Legend headline the performers. During the show, CNN will honor 10 heroes and reveal the CNN Hero of the Year, who will receive an additional $100,000.
FEATURES
By David Folkenflik and David Folkenflik,SUN TELEVISION WRITER | January 14, 2003
Veteran journalist Walter Isaacson said yesterday that he will step down as chairman and CEO of the CNN networks to head the prestigious Aspen Institute, a nonprofit group dedicated to the study of global problems. He will be replaced by Jim Walton, a 22-year veteran of CNN who has served as Isaacson's top deputy. Isaacson's departure came at a surprising time: Stephen M. Case, the chairman of parent company AOL Time Warner, announced his resignation over the weekend. "This opportunity was unexpected and unsolicited, and the timing is not perfect, but it is exactly the type of job I have long wanted," Isaacson wrote in a memo to CNN staffers.
FEATURES
By Jean Marbella | March 25, 1991
Now that the Persian Gulf war is over, CNN has released a video on how it began."Desert Storm: The War Begins," which explores the background of the conflict and ends with the first day of actual fighting, should be in video stores and supermarkets shortly if it's not there already. Turner Home Entertainment began distributing about 300,000 copies of the 1-hour, 17-minute tape about a week ago.Anchored by Cable News Network's Bernard Shaw, the tape includes footage of war leaders such as Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, excerpts of an interview with Saddam Hussein and reporting by CNN correspondents -- including that of Mr. Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman in Baghdad the first night that it was bombed.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | January 20, 2012
In November, I advanced one of CNN's debates with a piece hoping aloud that Wolf Blitzer would not let Newt Gingrich bully him as the the former Speaker of the House had been doing to other debate moderators. Here's a bit of what I wrote: And so it is that I will come to TV tonight hoping to see one of the few anchors who has the stature and the credibility to call out Gingrich take the candidate of bluster on for his phony game of pounding the press by telling moderators how "stupid" (one of his favorite words)
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | January 4, 2012
With a caucus vote so close that the cable channels had to wait until all the votes were finally tallied at 2:34 a.m. Wednesday to declare a winner, Iowa was no place to be Tuesday night for media amateurs and ideologues. Which is to say there was only one TV place to be: CNN. Forget all the technological razzle-dazzle of "the flick" and a new and improved Magic Wall. Ignore the utterly confusing social-media map and the silliness of virtual "Weebles" to try and explain how caucuses work.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | December 17, 2011
I'm coming back to work after a much-needed week away, and I am starting with a busy day Sunday that opens in Washington at CNN's "Reliable Sources. " Host Howard Kurtz has a very strong lineup this week. Here's his description from the CNN website: Another week and another debate hit our TV screens with just over two weeks to go until the Iowa caucus. We'll have “The Press Pool” host Julie Mason, National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru, and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank to talk about the latest political headlines.