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Report: Brooke Baldwin meeting with NBC Bay Area exec

by Allan, posted in CNN

On air Tuesday, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin announced she was leaving CNN in April after a thirteen year career as a news correspondent and afternoon anchor. At the conclusion of her message, Baldwin acknowledged, “Yep, we still in a pandemic, and nope, I don’t have a job I’m jumping right into, and yes – yes, I’m feeling very vulnerable.”

However, Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman reports a nugget, that next week, Baldwin has a meeting scheduled with a NBC Bay Area executive vice president and news director at the San Jose Hotel.

Over the past year, Baldwin’s star at CNN has been eclipsed by fellow anchor Brianna Keilar. CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker slashed an hour of Baldwin’s newscast to give it to Jake Tapper to extend The Lead for election coverage, all the while slashing the other hour to give it to Keilar to extend her to two years.

Now, Baldwin may be considering a post-CNN move to the Bay Area? Stay tuned.

CNN announces Jim Acosta’s new show

by Allan, posted in CNN


CNN’s new Chief Domestic Correspondent Jim Acosta has been named CNN Newsroom Saturday and Sunday anchor. He will anchor weekends from 3-6pm. Prior to this new role, he covered the White House for CNN for the past seven years, and he served as Chief White House Correspondent since 2018. As previously announced, Pamela Brown now anchors CNN Newsroom on Saturdays and Sundays from 6-9pm, taking over after Acosta. She also serves as Senior Washington correspondent for CNN.

In addition, CNN announced Ana Cabrera will vacate her weekend post and move to weekdays, anchoring Newsroom from 1-2pm. After that, from 2-4pm, Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell will co-anchor Newsroom since Brooke Baldwin announced she is leaving in April. Brianna Keilar will move to New Day with John Berman.

Camerota told CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker, “I would sometimes say to Jeff, you know, it’s kind of hard to do this and get up at 3. And he would basically say, get back in there, and that there was no time to take your foot off the gas. And he was right. So basically, I really wanted to see this through.” But now, Zucker has agreed to move her to afternoons.

Replacing Blackwell on New Day Weekend, Boris Sanchez will join Christi Paul as co-anchor on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Sanchez previously served as a CNN White House correspondent.

Brooke Baldwin announces she is leaving CNN in April

by Allan, posted in CNN, Video

At the top of her show CNN Newsroom, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin announced she was leaving CNN, the network she has worked at for nearly 13 years. “I will be leaving CNN in April. Let me back up. After most of my 20s working my way up in local news, I came to this network in 2008 – in the midst of the Great Recession as a freelancer. I remember I scribbled my name on a Post-It note and stuck it outside of this temporary office, determined to fulfilling my dream of becoming a full-time CNN correspondent.”

She added, “Little did I know, I would not only go one to fulfill that dream, I would flourish in this environment and land my own two-hour show in the afternoon at the age of 31.” During fall 2020, Brianna Keilar took an hour from Baldwin, reducing her to an hour of airtime.

“For a decade I’ve never taken for granted the enormous responsibility and privilege I’ve had to work with some of the most talented producers and photojournalists and correspondents and anchors out there as we have covered our era’s most urgent and important stories, conflicts, terrorism, environmental and natural disasters, the wrath of gun violence, royal weddings, my American Woman series, the social justice movements that define our culture and a pandemic that changed the world and politics – lots of politics.

“You have been with me every step of the way – never more so than when I was incredibly sick with Covid last year. I am so grateful for your loyalty and passion for the world we cover. I am so grateful to my show team – you know who you are. You know who you are. To Jeff Zucker, to my very large CNN family and to you. To you.”

Baldwin ended, “And, yep, we still in a pandemic, and nope, I don’t have a job I’m jumping right into, and yes – yes, I’m feeling very vulnerable. But what is it Brene Brown says? ‘Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change,’ and I am so excited about what is to come. So, here it goes: I really do hope you’ll join me, and in the meantime, I’ll be right here with you, right her until mid-April. Now, to the news.”

It has been reported that Keilar will actually move to the morning show, New Day, and Alisyn Camerota will move to afternoons.

Brianna Keilar’s rise at CNN

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keilarVariety is out today with a deep-dive piece on CNN anchor Brianna Keilar’s rise at CNN, highlighting some of her contentious interviews with Trump officials in recent weeks.

“She will not move on until she gets the answer to her question,” says Eric Hall, who is executive producer of Keilar’s program, as well as CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin’s. “It may take 15 minutes, but she does not move on. That’s one of her greatest strengths.”

In July, Keilar’s 1 p.m. hour of CNN Newsroom saw a whopping increase of 140% in the 25-54 demo. That hour was also the most-watched in that demographic in July among the nation’s three main cable news channels, though Fox News’ 1 p.m. rival still attracts more viewers overall.

But recently, as Variety properly noted, Baldwin’s 2pm hour has been taken over by Keilar, leaving Baldwin with the 3pm hour, as opposed to a two-hour block.

“We see 1 p.m. as the turning point of the day. Viewers are coming out especially at that time for context and perspective,” her EP, Hall, said. “They are looking to us to advance the story, to find voices we are not hearing from all day long.”

Brooke Baldwin on returning to air: “I have such a stake in this, just like so many, you know, hundreds of thousands of other people”

by Allan, posted in CNN

Before returning to host CNN Newsroom on Monday, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin stopped by Reliable Sources on Sunday to chat with Brian Stelter about having coronavirus and how it will impact her coverage going forward.

Stelter asked how she was doing, and Baldwin noted that her battle with Covid-19 was better than some, in that she didn’t have to go to the hospital or be put on a ventilator. “I didn’t have to add to the stress of the doctors and nurses in these hospitals by having to go in. That said, it was like going to Hell and back,” before adding she was “one of the lucky ones.”

He then turned to her anchor gig, and asked if she thought she’d do anything differently now.

Quite emphatically, Baldwin answered, “How can I not approach it differently? I think when I talk to family members who have loved ones who are suffering, how can I not understand it and have that empathy a bit more than another journalist who was fortunate enough not to get it? How can I not when I’m talking to doctors, you know, trying to understand why aren’t there more FDA-approved antibody tests?”

She went on, “I was reading a piece in the Times this weekend saying out of 14 tests, only three had fairly accurate results. Why is that? I’ll ask doctors about plasma donation. I want to give my blood to people to be able to help others who are sick. So hopefully viewers will be watching and understand that I have such a stake in this, just like so many, you know, hundreds of thousands of other people.”

She will be back on Monday at a special time of 1-3pm.

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Brooke Baldwin will return to air on Monday

by Allan, posted in CNN

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin will return to the air on Monday, April 27, following her weeks-long battle with coronavirus. She will anchor CNN Newsroom from 1-3pm instead of 2-4, as a result of CNN’s temporary, shuffled dayside programming.

Yesterday, she posted she had tested negative for coronavirus, and she hoped to donate her plasma to those who are still ill with coronavirus.

Brooke Baldwin provides Day 14 update: “I feel SO MUCH BETTER”

by Allan, posted in CNN

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin posted on Instagram that she feels “SO MUCH BETTER.” She said that although she does still have a cough, she is feeling better.

Balwdin said she will be going to the doctor’s office next week to get the official approval that she is good to go back to work. She said she won’t be rushing back into it, because she doesn’t have cameras in her home, so she when she returns, she’ll have to go back to CNN’s Hudson Yards office, and doesn’t want to do so before she is completely recovered.

She announced she tested positive on April 10.

Brooke Baldwin provides coronavirus update: Last night was the worst so far

by Allan, posted in CNN

On April 3, CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin announced she tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the second CNN anchor to have the virus.

Earlier, she posted an update to Instagram about last night, her worst night yet: “Last night turned out to be my worst so far — aches, chills, highest fever I’ve had. Tears. It wasn’t pretty.”

But when Baldwin woke up this morning, she was feeling better, she said. “[I woke up] feeling rested and at peace,” she wrote, before noting, “This will all be over soon enough.”

Thanking people for checking in on her, she wrote: “This past week I have heard from THOUSANDS of you. And in my lowest moments with this thing, what would keep me from completely spinning out, would be reading notes and texts and comments from you. Growing up in the South… the thing my mom would always be yammering to us kids: BE KIND. Turns out — it’s been YOUR kindness to me that has been 100% the most overwhelming part of this experience. And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart: thank you.”