While the comms team is still in tact, we hear SVP of communications Matt Dornic and others who oversaw a damaging all-access article getting the boot.
Following the announcement Wednesday that CNN head Chris Licht is out of the company after an embarrassing profile in the Atlantic, Page Six hears that senior leaders of the PR team who let it happen are also on their way out.
A source tells us that network execs are cleaning house in the communications department, which oversaw the article that laid bare everything fromWe hear that senior vice president of communications Matt Dornic — who made several appearances in the article “ ” as an “omnipresent” figure and is described as “a mainstay of Licht’s small entourage” — has been given the boot.Another source tells us that EVP & Global Head of Communications and Marketing at CNN, Kris Coratti Kelly, was cleaning out her desk last night.
A source tells us CNN’s senior vice president of communications, Matt Dornic, is expected to leave the company.Kelly, formerly of the The Washington Post, was brought on to the role by Licht last July as he was filling out his leadership team. VP & Global Head of Communications and Marketing at CNN, Kris Coratti Kelly, is said to be on the chopping block.while the network looks for a replacement. Amy Entelis, EVP of talent and content development, Virginia Moseley, EVP of editorial, and Eric Sherling, EVP of US programming, as well as David Leavy, chief operating officer will take over as leadership while execs conduct what Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav called “a thorough internal and external search” for a new CEO.
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