Monday, May 09, 2005
More CNN Cost Cutting
It seems I have been given the answer to a post on another blog. TV Newser posted this Friday:
Why did CNN lay off Marketsource correspondent Claire Leka after nearly five years with the company? Google has a cache of her biography, but it's already been deleted from CNN.com. Are Susan Lisovicz and Jennifer Westhoven "excited" about their new workload?
A CNN insider e-mailed CNN Blog the answer:
CNN reporters are said to be less than thrilled about their new workload. As part of a restructuring of operations, CNN business correspondents, Susan Lisovic and Jennifer Westhoven will now also have to do reports for Newsource affiliates as well as reports for the various CNN Networks. As if they didn't have enough to do already. Newsource used to have its own "dedicated" correspondent, Claire Leka to handle those affiliate reports in the afternoon, but she was axed due to cost cutting by the network.

