A last round of pink slips were doled out to workers hired by the Cable News Network’s short-lived streaming platform CNN+ on Wednesday, according to the Daily Beast, which reports the last 20 or so employees hired to launch the moribund project were finally cut loose.
That report said a department called the Interview Club largely constituted the final round of casualties at CNN+. Some of those impacted by Wednesday’s release allegedly felt they’d been strung along since the platform shutdown in April, just weeks after its launch.
The decision to nix CNN+ came in the aftermath of a massive merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery. One of the most high-profile moves made by CNN+ was the hiring of longtime Fox News veteran Chris Wallace, who was given a show called “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” where the veteran newsman interviews newsmakers running the gamut from business to entertainment. That program was moved to CNN’s cable station, where it got off to a very slow start Sunday.
