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Alex MacCallum has been promoted to main operating serviceman astatine CNN, a further denotation of nan value that CEO Mark Thompson has placed connected integer and streaming.
MacCallum has served arsenic executive vice president of integer products and services for nan past 2 years. In a memo to labor connected Thursday, Thompson wrote that MacCallum “is already playing a important domiciled successful turning our imagination of nan early CNN into a reality.”
Her duties will grow to see oversight of user strategy, operations, mission-driven task activity and strategical partnerships and business development, Thompson wrote.
“Alex has already achieved an awesome group of captious accomplishments successful grounds time,” he wrote. “On apical of building a world-class integer cognition and transforming our halfway products, she’s led and launched a direct-to-consumer sub business, assembled a group of outstanding leaders successful audience, data, merchandise and tech, engagement and monetization, and has built fantabulous collaborative moving relationships pinch each of CNN’s different apical leaders.”
CNN launched All Access, a subscription tier that includes a streaming provender of nan linear network, successful October. Thompson has prioritized nan integration of integer pinch nan network’s linear operations, which are grappling pinch cord cutting and nan wide displacement to streaming and societal media.
Before her existent CNN tenure, MacCallum was main gross serviceman astatine The Washington Post. Before that, she was world caput of merchandise for CNN Worldwide and wide head of CNN+, nan second of which was unopen down aft conscionable 1 period by caller genitor Warner Bros. Discovery. She antecedently spent 8 years astatine The New York Times.
David Leavy previously served arsenic COO before he departed past May. Status first reported connected MacCallum’s promotion.
