CNN reviews

3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,032 total reviews)
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Jeff Zucker

33% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

CNN has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,032 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CNN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Apr 30, 2009
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Pros

High profile news organisation with an ever-dwindling population of talented employees who are dedicated to excellence.There are still a handful of visionary managers - notably at CNN. Com - who lead with firm editorial and personal integrity and a devotion to fair treatment of their workforce.

Cons

Good journalists at CNN are routinely undermined by misguided, ratings-obsessed managers who change their ideology as often as their underwear. Unable to provide true leadership, they are startlingly successful in at least one endeavour: casting off or driving away their best people as they sacrifice journalism in the pursuit of popularity. Lacking any real grasp of what once made CNN great - they persist in the sad error of trying to emulate the very worst examples of broadcast journalism .. in some cases firing their own and hiring an abject alternative from the competition. They then watch in bewilderment as staff morale swirls down the toilet, and a new manager, hot from Fox, steers staff morale into a tailspin and singlehandedly sets the quality of programming back twenty years. This kind of blind desperation explains why CNN is casting about like a lost man in a storm. Once CNN didn't even acknowledge the competition. It didn't have to because it didn't exist. The network was once in a league of its own. Sadly, no more.

2.0
Feb 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation and Benefits and package are probably among the highest in the industry Fantastic building and facility in NY - Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle - probably the best looking media bldg in NYC. Top and highly respected brand.

Cons

highly fragmented and pathologically political disregard for employee performance divisions are "groupy" and try to do things within themselves senior management like to ONLY have the people they think they get along with or like and disregard the ones who they think they may not like despite top performance.

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