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Chaos Came to CBS News. What’s in Store for CNN?

NYT > Business > Media · Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin · last updated

The tech scion David Ellison is close to completing a merger that would put the legacy broadcaster and the 24-hour cable news network under the same roof.

Over nearly five decades, CNN has survived multiple owners, ratings ups and downs, and attacks by President Trump.

Now, its journalists are bracing for its most dramatic transformation yet: a corporate merger that would put the 24-hour cable network under the same ownership as CBS News.

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