CNN Rehires Former Commentator

CNN has rehired former commentator Brian Stelter after being fired in a network shake up over two years ago.

“I’m returning to @CNN in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst. I’ll be appearing on TV, developing digital content, and once again helming the Reliable Sources newsletter,” Stelter said.

I’m returning to @CNN in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst. I’ll be appearing on TV, developing digital content, and once again helming the Reliable Sources newsletter.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 3, 2024

“I am thrilled to share that I am returning as the lead author of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter, the digest I founded in 2015,” Stelter wrote.

We wanted Reliable Sources readers to find out first. So I wrote them a letter: https://t.co/UPSopYHRbA pic.twitter.com/7xBWp4dcno

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 3, 2024

Per Fox News:

Stelter said his return to CNN, which officially starts Sept. 9, won’t be the same as his previous stint at the network, insisting “because I am different.”

“The media industry has matured, CNN has evolved, and I have changed a lot since I signed off two years ago,” Stelter wrote. “After 20+ years as a news junkie, I changed my habits and tuned out for a bit. I also changed my vantage point, moving from Manhattan to a horse farm near one of Donald Trump’s golf clubs. I experienced the news more like an everyday consumer, and in doing so, I learned a whole lot about the attention economy and the information ecosystem. I’m looking forward to sharing what I learned with you.”

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Stelter suggested in Tuesday’s announcement that while he’s returning to CNN’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter, his “Reliable Sources” TV program will not be revived.

Stelter was fired by CNN in 2022 by his then-boss Chris Licht, who at the time was “determined to tamp down spectacle” and tasked by his own bosses at parent company Warner Bros. Discovery to restore CNN’s journalistic credibility by shedding its left-wing partisanship.

“Guess who won’t be returning to CNN? Viewers,” Jimmy Dore commented.

Guess who won’t be returning to CNN?

Viewers. https://t.co/P2Q5ogsyyA

— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) September 4, 2024

“Brian Stelter has been a prolific spreader of misinformation so it’s a fitting that he’s going back to CNN to spread more of it,” Outkick writer Ian Miller said.

Brian Stelter has been a prolific spreader of misinformation so it’s a fitting that he’s going back to CNN to spread more of it https://t.co/H5lQ3pLkm5

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) September 4, 2024

From the New York Post:

Stelter’s new job comes after former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy quit to launch his own media newsletter.

In his new role as chief media analyst, he’ll appear on air, push out digital content and be in charge of the newsletter that he claimed will be “different, because I am different.”

Stelter wrote after he was fired, he changed his news habits and moved out of Manhattan and “to a horse farm near one of former President Donald Trump’s golf clubs.”

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“I experienced the news more like an everyday consumer, and in doing so, I learned a whole lot about the attention economy and the information ecosystem,” he wrote. “I’m looking forward to sharing what I learned with you.”

During his two-year hiatus, Stelter, who is married to NY1 anchor Jamie Stelter, wrote for various publications and even appeared on CNN a handful of times.

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