CNN’s Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer Reportedly Denied Raises While Chris Wallace Asked To Take Pay Cut
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have been denied salary raises while Chris Wallace will likely be forced to take a pay cut — even as rank-and-file journalists at the network
brace for “inevitable” layoffs, according to a report.
Mark Thompson —
the former BBC and New York Times boss who was
brought in to overhaul CNN by Warner Bros. Discovery overlord David Zaslav — has told some of his highest paid and most recognizable stars to “take it or leave it,” according to a report.
Thompson recently re-signed Tapper,
CNN’s chief Washington correspondent who anchors “The Lead,” to a new three-year contract that will pay him the same $7 million annually that he had earned under the terms of his previous deal,
according to The Ankler newsletter.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer reportedly denied raises while Chris Wallace asked to take pay cut
Blitzer, the 76-year-old longtime CNN veteran who anchors “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” has also been re-signed to a new three-year contract that will freeze his pay at roughly $3 million annually — the same sum of money he had been making before, the newsletter reported.
CNN’s new boss told some of his highest paid and most recognizable stars to “take it or leave it,” according to a report.
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