Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.
The former CNN anchor was fired last year for violating CNN's journalistic standards when he helped his brother, ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, navigate the sexual harassment allegations against him.
Licht would replace Jeff Zucker, who resigned earlier this month after saying he had failed to acknowledge a romantic relationship with a senior executive at the network.
Chief marketing officer Allison Gollust quit after the end of a probe of former prime-time star Chris Cuomo. Gollust, Cuomo and former CNN chief Jeff Zucker were all cited for violating standards.
CNN's best-known journalists are demanding transparency over the causes compelling former CNN head Jeff Zucker to resign. He acknowledged a consensual relationship with another top network executive.
Zucker, CNN's top executive, says he failed to disclose the relationship when it began, as the company requires. Instead, it emerged during an inquiry into former CNN host Chris Cuomo.
"My client came forward at this time because she felt in sharing her story and related documentation, she could help protect other women," said attorney Debra Katz on Sunday.
"It hurts to even say it," the popular cable news anchor told listeners of his SiriusXM show on Wednesday. Cuomo has been suspended by CNN indefinitely, pending an evaluation by the network.
CNN said new documents "raise serious questions" about the anchor's role in trying to help his brother, former N.Y. governor Andrew Cuomo, respond to sexual misconduct allegations.
An investigation by Bellingcat, an Internet research organization, and other media outlets, revealed that for years, Russian agents secretly followed Alexei Navalny.
Ward says she didn't know as a journalist she would "have my heart broken in a hundred different ways, that I would lose friends and watch children die and grow to feel like an alien in my own skin."
Former CNN journalist Isha Sesay argues that the Nigerian government, the media, and the public have failed the 276 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group five years ago.
Jim Acosta comes across less like a reporter than a rival in his book — giving his side of the history of his interactions with the president and the legal battle to regain access to the White House.
Former Utah Republican Representative Mia Love announced she will be joining CNN as a commentator after being unseated by a Democratic challenger in November.
Love tweeted today she’ll offer an “unleashed” perspective on the cable news network.
In the first legal battle between President Trump and the news media, a federal judge sided with CNN and ordered the White House to immediately restore Jim Acosta's press pass.
NPR's Nina Totenberg was frozen out at the Justice Department in the early 1980s. Ted Olson, among those defending Jim Acosta over his revoked press pass, got Totenberg back in the loop.
CNN is calling the action unconstitutional. However, the White House argues that a president gets to select chose who interviews him and that a news conference is just "an interview with 100 people."
A federal judge in Washington appointed by the president will hear a case brought by CNN and joined by other outlets about the stripped credentials of a reporter.
The White House suspended the reporter's credentials following a contentious news conference last week during which President Trump called him a "rude, terrible person."
The announcement comes as bomb suspect Cesar Altieri Sayoc is due to appear in court on Monday, accused of sending packages to CNN and others last week.
President Trump has toggled between conventional messages of national unity and partisan attacks this week as the nation was rattled by a series of suspected pipe bombs.
"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague," his employer, CNN, said in a statement. The network and a French official said the cause of death was suicide.
After postponing the announcement of the 'Fake News Awards' winners for a week, the president's event crashed the website of the GOP. The New York Times took first place on the list.
