Jim Acosta leaving CNN after being pulled from community’s programming schedule: report

CNN anchor Jim Acosta is reportedly leaving the community after he was formally pulled from its programming schedule. 

The Standing e-newsletter reported Monday that Acosta was anticipated to depart CNN after it was introduced final week that his 10 a.m. ET program was being changed with “The Scenario Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” within the community’s newest reshuffling. 

The e-newsletter beforehand reported that Acosta was pitched by CNN CEO Mark Thompson to maneuver him from his one-hour slot at 10 a.m. ET to a two-hour slot starting at midnight, a far much less distinguished place within the lineup.

One CNN insider instructed Fox Information Digital they heard Acosta “struggled with the selection” and could also be chopping his contract quick consequently.

“It takes braveness,” the CNN insider mentioned.

One other CNN insider was dismayed by Acosta’s exit, saying “Many viewers like Jim… if there’s anybody who may make the in a single day go it is him,” including “It is unhappy to see him go.”

A spokesperson for CNN declined to remark. 

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Jim Acosta is reportedly leaving CNN after he was left off the community’s new programming schedule. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Acosta turned extra extensively often known as CNN’s chief White Home correspondent for his antagonistic relationship with President Donald Trump and his aides in the course of the first Trump administration. After the 2020 election, Acosta’s standing at CNN was shifted to chief home correspondent, anchoring a present on the weekends however ultimately shifting his option to weekday programming. 

Whereas CNN’s previous management reveled in Acosta’s fixed sparring matches with the primary Trump administration, the community’s present management seems to be attempting to look extra impartial for the second go-around.

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CNN’s Jim Acosta turned a daily fixture on the late-night circuit in the course of the first Trump administration, a rarity for a White Home reporter in earlier presidencies. (Randy Holmes by way of Getty Photos))

Acosta first joined CNN in 2007, the place he lined political campaigns and ultimately the Obama and Trump White Homes. He shortly turned infamous for shouting questions at Trump’s White Home press secretaries and steadily going toe-to-toe with the president himself, growing a popularity for grandstanding and receiving a profile increase by Trump after being referred to as “faux information.”

Acosta famously refused to surrender the microphone in a 2018 press convention as he engaged in a contentious back-and-forth with Trump. The White Home tried to revoke Acosta’s press move following the dust-up, however his credentials had been restored when CNN argued that it violated the First and Fifth Modification rights of Acosta and the community.

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CNN’s Jim Acosta famously refused to surrender the microphone whereas peppering President Donald Trump with questions throughout a 2018 press convention. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst )

Acosta’s adversarial relationship with the primary Trump administration seemed to be profitable as he landed himself a ebook deal and have become a visitor on liberal late-night exhibits, additional fueling the star energy that landed him an anchor chair in the course of the Biden presidency. He just lately instructed viewers the press is “not the enemy of the individuals” in a shot at Trump. 

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 Fox Information’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.