CNN Worldwide is a portfolio of two dozen news and information services across cable, satellite, radio, wireless devices and the Internet in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Domestically, CNN reaches more individuals on television, the web and mobile devices than any other cable TV news organization in the United States; internationally, CNN is the most widely distributed news channel reaching more than 271 million households abroad; and CNN Digital is a top network for online news, mobile news and social media. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world’s most extensively utilized news service partnering with hundreds of local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company.
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CNN WORLDWIDE EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT:
Jeff Zucker President, CNN Worldwide
Greg D’Alba Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of CNN Advertising Sales and Marketing
Rick Davis Executive Vice President, News Standards and Practices CNN Worldwide
Brad Ferrer Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration CNN Worldwide
Susan Grant Executive Vice President of CNN News Services
Ken Jautz Executive Vice President of CNN/U.S.
Tony Maddox Executive Vice President and Managing Director of CNN International
Scot Safon Executive Vice President of HLN
Janet Rollé Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, CNN Worldwide
EXECUTIVES:
Ken Jautz Executive Vice President
Bart Feder Senior Vice President for Current Programming
CNN/U.S., the leading 24-hour news and information cable television network and the flagship of all CNN news brands, invented 24-hour television news. CNN/U.S. provides live coverage and analysis of breaking news, as well as a full range of international, political, business, entertainment, sports, health, science and weather coverage, and topical in-depth interviews.
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Launch: June 1, 1980
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Distribution: More than 99 million households and in more than 890,000 hotel rooms
EXECUTIVES:
Scot Safon Executive Vice President
Katherine Green Senior Vice President, Managing Editor
HLN is the national television network that focuses on the “must-see, must-share” stories of the day. Drawing upon the network’s deep bench of talent, HLN dissects and demystifies the news stories and newsmakers people are talking about.
HLNtv.com, the network’s new digital platform, is the online destination for users to go deeper into the top stories driving the conversation and generating the national buzz.
HLN is a CNN Worldwide network reaching more than 100 million households in the U.S. CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information.
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Launch: Jan. 1, 1982
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Distribution: More than 100 million households and 600,000 hotel rooms in the United States and Canada. It is also seen in more than 3.5 million households and hotel rooms across parts of Latin America and Asia Pacific, and more than 40 hours of HLN programming airs on the CNN Airport Network.
EXECUTIVES:
Tyler Moody Vice President
CNN Radio creates and distributes original audio content offering the latest news, sports and business information.
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Launch: April 1, 1982
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Programming: News, sports, entertainment and business
Distribution: International affiliates, CNN Newsource, the CNN Wire, and CNN.com, as well as web and mobile applications.
Staff: Based in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.
EXECUTIVES:
Susan Grant Executive Vice President of CNN News Services
Kenneth “KC” Estenson Senior Vice President and General Manager, CNN Digital
Chris Peacock Vice President and Executive Editor, CNNMoney
CNN is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com, as well as CNNMoney.com, iReport.com and CNN’s mobile and video products. The collective CNN sites include several international sites and are among the world’s leading news and information destinations. The CNN sites rank among the top destinations for all online news and information sites.
CNN.com
The flagship platform, CNN.com draws from the resources of CNN Worldwide and its many partners to provide consumers with the most enriching, immediate interaction with news anywhere, seamlessly combining articles, videos, images, interactive features and user-generated content. CNN.com’s video offering is unparalleled on the Web as well as it’s content partnerships and innovative social media implementations. In addition to covering major news of the day across multiple verticals, CNN.com covers a wide range of topics to inform, inspire and delight.
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Launch: Aug. 30, 1995
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Programming: News, sports, business, entertainment, weather, politics, law, science and technology, travel, space, health, food, nature and in-depth special sections
Distribution/Traffic: CNN Digital is the top destination for online and wireless news, drawing from the resources of CNN Worldwide and its many partners to provide consumers with the most enriching, immediate interaction with news anywhere. Whether online at CNN.com, on user-generated news community, CNN Digital seamlessly combines articles, live and on-demand videos, images, interactive features and user-generated content across its platforms. CNN Digital has been widely recognized wiwth recent awards including a Peabody Award, to EPpy awards, four CableFAX Best of the Web awards, a National Headliner award and Edward R. Murrow awards for CNN.com.
CNNMoney.com
CNNMoney.com is the world’s leading business Web site. The site is the online home of FORTUNE, MONEY, and FSB: FORTUNE Small Business magazine, and serves as CNN.com’s exclusive business site. The site, together with the three titles, is part of the Fortune|Money Group,
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Launch: Launched as CNNfn.com in conjunction with CNNfn on Dec. 29, 1995. Launched with MONEY magazine as Money.CNN.com on Oct. 8, 2001
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Programming: Breaking business, financial and market news, as well as in-depth analysis of the U.S. and global economies, the technology industry and companies in the news.
Distribution/Traffic: CNNMoney.com attracts more than 10 million unique visitors per month, according to Nielsen/Net Ratings.
CNN iReport.com
CNN iReport is the network’s global participatory news community.
Timeline – The evolution of iReport
§ CNN’s first iReport initiative began in August 2, 2006
§ The second phase of iReport happened on February 2008. CNN launched iReport.com (in beta) on February 13, 2008 – the site the followed up with a full scale launch in March 2008.
§ CNN iReport was fully integrated into CNN.com with the relaunch of CNN.com on October 26, 2009.
§ Open Story, a collaborative way for CNN to tell stories with iReporters was introduced at the 2011 South by Southwest Conferences & Festivals.
§ CNN iReport celebrated its fifth year anniversary on August 2, 2011. The anniversary was marked with global meetups in more than 50 cities worldwide.
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Launch: Aug. 21, 2006
Stats: CNN’s iReport has more than 1,002,428 registered “iReporters” (Source: iReport Server Log Data) with an average of 2.4 million unique users each month through November 2011. (Source: ComScore 11/10-11/11). iReport experienced its highest traffic day on June 11, 2008 with 2.8 million page views (Source: Omniture.)
CNN MOBILE
EXECUTIVES:
Louis Gump Vice President
CNN Mobile delivers world-class content across multiple mobile platforms including mobile web, downloadable applications, video and messaging. CNN Digital has remained the No. 1 mobile news and information site for more than four consecutive years according to Nielsen Mobile Media View. (Source: Nielsen Mobile Media View).
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Launch: 1999
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Distribution: CNN’s mobile services are available in English globally in 100 + countries and territories around the world.
Global product: Mobile Website launched in 1999 with first carrier contract in 2000
Mobile Video On Deck launched in 2006
Messaging (SMS alerts) launched in 2007
CNN App for the iPhone and iPod touch in the U.S. – Sept. 2009; globally – July 2010; CNN App or iPad launched globally in Dec. 2010; CNN App for Android tablet in Feb. 2011; CNN App for Android phones in April 2011; CNN App for Nokia in May 2011; CNN App for Windows Phones in Feb. 2012.
CNN Airport Network is the only satellite-delivered television service available to waiting air travelers throughout the United States. Services are also available internationally. CNN Airport Network is Turner Private Network’s only fully owned, branded network.
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Launch: Jan. 20, 1992
Programming: CNN-produced, news and live breaking news, business and financial reports, sports updates, weather, lifestyle and general interest segments, as well as entertainment and travel features.
Distribution: In the United States, CNN Airport Network is available to more than 20 million travelers in more than 1,880 gate areas per month at 42 airports, representing more than 400 million passenger enplanements annually
CNN is the exclusive programming supplier for AccentHealth, a place-based television network that delivers preventive health-care information to doctors’ waiting rooms. Turner Private Networks, in conjunction with the CNN Health Unit, produces the award-winning programming.
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Launch: Oct. 1, 1995
Programming: Preventive health-care information, including sports medicine, parenting tips, nutrition and safety information
Distribution: More than 11,000 doctors’ waiting rooms in the top 130 markets nationwide, reaching 17 million adults each month
EXECUTIVES:
Paul Crum Vice President, News Operations, Administration and Affiliate Services, CNN/U.S.
Beth Carter Director, CNN Newsource
Frank Barnett Vice President, CNN Newsbeam
Jack Womack Senior Vice President, CNN NewsGroup
CNN Newsource, comprised of approximately 850 affiliates including TV stations and local/regional cable news channels throughout North America, is the most widely distributed syndicated news service. Through continuous digital media distribution and five digital satellite channels, CNN Newsource provides partners with the news content necessary to produce competitive newscasts. This includes: CNN Worldwide's global newsgathering resources; the collective coverage power of CNN Newsource affiliates; customized live coverage of breaking news from CNN correspondents and localized CNN Money Matters reports live from the floor of the NYSE. Additionally, CNN Newsource stations benefit from CNN Newsbeam, which provides satellite time and fiber connectivity from CNN's vast global resources at lower than market rates. CNN Newsource also helps prepare tomorrow’s journalists by providing service at no charge to colleges and universities through its Newsource in the Classroom program.
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Launch Date: Oct. 19, 1987
Distribution: More than 850 network affiliates and independent television stations in North America and more than 200 international affiliates. Continuous digital media delivery, known as Bit Central, and five digital satellite channels
Programming: Local, national and international, sports, medical, business and entertainment news
Staff: Located in bureaus and divisions in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Based in Atlanta, CNN ImageSource is the content licensing arm of CNN Worldwide, and draws on more than 3 million items including b-roll content, branded content from CNN programs, affiliate content from 650+ US affiliates and user-generated content iReport. More than 1 million of these assets have been digitized, and close to 600,000 sit our on website, http://www.cnnimagesource.com, where corporate, commercial and advertising clients can review their content selections prior to purchase.
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Launch Date: 1987
The CNN Wire is a syndicated news wire commercially available both al a cart and on a subscription basis. The CNN Wire was created in 1993 as an in-house resource to provide editorial material to all of CNN’s rapidly growing number of CNN services. It produces fact checked copy 24/7 as well as gathering material from CNN’s 47 domestic and international newsgathering operations bureau and can also create customized material.
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Launch date: Became commercially available in 2009
EXECUTIVES:
Tony Maddox Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CNN International
Mike McCarthy Senior Vice President of Programming, CNN International
Bill Galvin Senior Vice President of Business Development and Sports Programming, CNN International
Cynthia Hudson Senior Vice President CNN en Español
Parisa Khosravi Senior Vice President of international newsgathering, CNN Worldwide
Ellana Lee Vice President, Asia Pacific
Deborah Rayner Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Nick Wrenn Vice President of Digital Services, CNN International
CNN International is the most watched global 24-hour news network. CNN International can be seen in more than 271 million television households in more than 200 countries and territories through a network of 38 satellites. Since September 1997, CNN International has been regionalized into five separate regions: CNN International Europe/Middle East/Africa, CNN International Asia Pacific, CNN International South Asia, CNN International Latin America and CNN International North America.
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Launch: Europe, September 1985; Asia Pacific ,August 1989; Latin America, 1991; South Asia, July 2000; North America, October 2000.
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Language: English with some subtitling for feature programming in Asia Pacific
Household delivery: More than 271 million households
Bureaus: 33 outside of the U.S.
Production centers: Atlanta, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, London
Programming: News, business, sport and feature shows including Amanpour, Quest Means Business, Connect the World, International Desk, Main Sail and World Sport
CNN en Español provides continuous Spanish-language news coverage of major world events, live breaking coverage supported by in-depth analysis, worldwide business and financial news, global weather updates, sports and feature programming on such topics as health, technology and entertainment.
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Launch date: March 17, 1997
Mexico Feed: March 1999
Language: Spanish
Distribution: More than 31 million households in Latin America and more than 5.3 million households in the United States and Puerto Rico
Bureaus: Buenos Aires, Havana, Jerusalem, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York and Washington, D.C.
Programming: Program highlights include Panorama Mundial, international news with a global perspective; Cala, an up close and personal nightly conversation with the region’s top newsmakers; Mirador Mundial, updated news and information throughout the weekend; CNN Dinero, keeping pace with the speed of global business; Deportes CNN, sports triumphs and defeats; Café CNN, a jumpstart to the day with conversation and analysis; and Escenario, the buzz from Hollywood and beyond.
CNN en Español Radio is a full-service Spanish-language network, providing the latest information in news, sports, business and entertainment and full-time breaking news coverage. CNN en Español Radio is the first international radio news network to provide audio news resources to affiliates via a password-protected Web site.
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Launch March 29, 1993
Hours: 6 a.m.-midnight (ET), weekdays
Satellite Programming: Live breaking news coverage, CNN en Español simulcast
Internet Programming: A la Carta
Distribution: 14 U.S. affiliates and 35 international network affiliates in 16 Latin American countries and the Caribbean.
Staff: Located in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
CNN Chile
CNN Chile is Chile's leading 24-hour news network. A joint-venture between CNN and Liberty Global's VTR, CNN Chile launched in December 2008. In addition to a fully staffed local news production center based in Santiago, CNN Chile has complete access to CNN Worldwide¹s newsgathering resources including the support of 4,000 journalists based around the globe.
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Launch: Dec. 4, 2008
Language: Spanish
CNN-IBN
CNN-IBN is a partnership between Turner International and Global Broadcast News (GBN), a Network18 Group company, for a 24-hour English language general news channel in India to be headquartered in New Delhi.
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Launch: Dec. 5, 2005
Language: English
Distribution Reaches an average 45 million cable and satellite television viewers across India
Programming: CNN-IBN has access to CNN’s trademark live breaking news as well as key feature programs. This unique alliance, for the first time ever, enables Indian viewers to view local news as well as relevant global news from CNN, on the same platform. CNN-IBN combines content from CNN International for global news and for local news through its own editorial team. Live breaking news that is relevant to the target audience may be shown simultaneously on both services.
CNNj is a partnership between CNN and Japan Cable Television (JCTV).
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Launch: March 1, 2003
Number of Countries: 1 (Japan)
Language: English with Japanese translation service (18 hours per day) provided by Japan Cable Television.
Distribution: More than 6.6 million households, hotels and government offices throughout Japan.
Programming: CNNj uses content from CNN International.
CNN Türk was the second CNN-branded local-language news service to be operated and controlled outside of Atlanta. CNN Türk is a joint venture owned by Turner Broadcasting International and Turkey’s Dogan Media Group.
Launch: Oct. 11, 1999
Language: Turkish
Distribution: Eight million via terrestrial television and cable and satellite in other areas
Programming: 24-hour coverage of national and international news, including CNN’s trademark breaking news, plus extensive business, financial, political and sports news programming and analysis. Based in Istanbul and written, produced and presented by Turks for the Turkish market, CNN Türk has extensive newsgathering resources across Turkey.
The collective CNN sites are among the world’s leading news and information destinations and rank No. 1 in Gross Usage Minutes among all online news sites. CNN’s Web sites are updated continuously from production centers worldwide. In addition, CNN.com/Korean is a Korean language version of the CNN international Web site.
CNN.com international edition is CNN’s first internationally focused English-language Web site presenting world news.
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Launch: February 24, 2003
Programming: Top world news and business stories with separate sections for in-depth Asian and European news. Other sections include travel, entertainment and technology, all tailored for an international audience. Information on CNN programming with news on special guests and broadcasts, plus in-depth sections for CNN international shows including Revealed and Inside Africa
Distribution/Traffic: Worldwide
Headquartered: London/Hong Kong/Atlanta
CNNMéxico.com (Spanish)
CNNMéxico.com is a dynamic multimedia news and information site powered by CNN Worldwide and Grupo Editorial Expansión (GEE), one of the top editorial groups in Mexico.
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Launch: February 15, 2010
Language: Spanish
Hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Programming: National, World, Lifestyle and Health, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, Economy
Staff: Based in Atlanta and Mexico
The content for CNN.co.jp is jointly operated and managed by CNN and its content partner, Asahi Shimbun. The site combines CNN's global news resources with local news and information to provide Japanese Internet users international, regional and local news, updated constantly 24 hours a day. CNN and Asahi also offer Japanese and English news content for NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone, and KDDI’s mobile services in Japan.
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Launch: April 4, 2000
Programming: World, U.S., sports, science, entertainment, and fringe (a section with quirky and often amusing stories).
Headquartered: Tokyo
Based in CNN’s Dubai bureau, CNNArabic.com is the network’s first Arabic-language venture. The site utilizes the journalistic strengths of CNN’s global newsgathering capabilities, including the network's five Middle-Eastern bureaus, to deliver international and Middle Eastern stories for a worldwide Arabic-speaking audience
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Launch: Jan. 19, 2002
Programming: News, business, weather, science and technology, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and travel.
Headquartered: Dubai
EXECUTIVES:
Parisa Khosravi Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering, CNN Worldwide
Eli Flournoy Director, International Newsource
Eric Ruder Supervising Editor, CNN International Newsource
Sonia Tucker Manager, CNN Journalism Fellowship and Turner VIP Protocol Affairs
CNN International Newsource (INS) is responsible for the news relationship with its affiliates and partner stations outside the United States. INS delivers all distributable video (CNN, affiliate, and rights-cleared third party) to affiliates via satellite and via the Newsource website using a digital download system called Bitcentral. Newsource distributes to some 200 international and 850 domestic U.S. affiliates. The INS satellite channel delivers live events, extended raw b-roll and exclusive CNN interviews 24/7.
TRAINING: INS runs the CNN Journalism Fellowship (CJF) program in which about a dozen international affiliate journalists spend three weeks in Atlanta observing all aspects of CNN's broadcast news operations and receiving post-professional journalism and television-production training. These sessions are held 3-4 times per year. INS also manages ad-hoc affiliate training and observation visits to Atlanta headquarters and bureaus around the world, as well as ad hoc on-site training visits to affiliates.
CNN operates bureaus on six continents, including the only U.S.-based television news network in Havana, which gives CNN the ability to cover news whenever and wherever it happens. Newsgathering is coordinated through national and international assignment desks in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta and the London and Hong Kong production centers.
U.S.-BASED (12)
Atlanta (National bureau)
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis, Minn.
New York
Orlando, Fla.
Silicon Valley
Washington, D. C.
INTERNATIONAL (33)
Abu Dhabi
Amman
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Dubai
Havana
Hong Kong
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Kabul
Lagos
London
Madrid
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nairobi
New Delhi
Paris
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Seoul
Singapore
Tokyo
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