By Osagie Alonge
After a four month search, CNN has announced Jeffrey Zucker, a former chief executive of NBC as President of CNN Worldwide.
Zucker, 47, takes over from Jim Walton who had been announced in July to be stepping down.
Walton is however credited to have led the cable network to record profits even as their ratings dropped.
‘CNN has to find the right programming that exists in between the 25 nights a year when it is most relevant,” he said. “Beyond the fact that we are committed to news and journalism, everything else is open for discussion’, Zucker told the New York Times.
The US cable news channel was founded in 1980 by American media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner
