To counter traditional TV decline, CNN is launching a global streaming service, creating hundreds of new roles, with the first 100 positions to be filled by mid-2025

CNN will cut 6% of its current workforce as part of CEO Mark Thompson ‘s continuing efforts to build up the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet’s digital and broadband acumen as the audience flocking to its flagship cable network continues to wane. Many of his plans, telegraphed in a series of memos over recent months, have been expected.