CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Resigns After He Failed to Disclose Relationship with Colleague
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker has stepped down after failing to disclose his consensual relationship with a colleague.
Zucker, who helped shape the news company when he took over in 2013, is said to have either resigned or faced termination for not revealing his relationship with someone he was working closely with.
CNN reported that the company's president divulged his relationship only when investigations were launched against former news anchor Chris Cuomo's case on inappropriately advising his brother Andrew Cuomo against assault allegations against him.
According to WarnerMedia's (CNN's parent company) Standards of Business Conduct handbook, employees must not hire or supervise (directly or indirectly) someone with whom they have a personal relationship. The com...