CNN has long claimed to be “the most trusted name in news” but its recent history has seen the rolling US cable news channel court controversy with a shift to the left as the rise of Donald Trump roiled American politics.
But now the channel – under its newly installed chief executive, Chris Licht – is undergoing another rapid change, seeking to row away from some of its well-known anchors’ political partisanship and back to a more nuts-and-bolts approach to journalism.
