Tidbits From CNN Chief Jon Klein

By Brian 

Jacques Steinberg’s must-read NYT story about Jon Klein is worth reading twice. Here are the highlights:

> “Klein has told his staff that that he wants to increase the average amount of time viewers spend watching CNN’s prime-time lineup by an average of 30 seconds a month for the next 12 months — for what would be a total gain of six minutes.”

> Klein has “sought to watch as much CNN as is physically possible — some of it on a hand-held device he uses when he travels — stunning some producers.”

> Klein said “he did not intend, at least in the near future, to seek to replace” Cooper, Zahn, King or Brown — “though he did not rule out scratching at least one of those hosts from prime time, perhaps before year’s end.”

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