If Everything is Breaking News, Nothing is Breaking News: A Deep Cut Conversation with Rick Davis

from Breaking the News: CNN and the Birth of Chaos Media · host john hashimoto

Rick Davis, former CNNer who was the longest-serving executive in cable news history, reflects on the dangers of polarization, the challenges of the slow news day, and why media mergers always seem to misfire. Rick joined the network at its launch in 1980 and spent more than four decades in a variety of roles. He was EVP of Editorial Standards and Practices when he retired in 2021.

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