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CNN Worldwide’s Jim Walton to step aside for ‘new thinking’
Unable to reverse a dramatic ratings decline, CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton announced Friday that he is resigning at the end of the year.
“CNN needs new thinking,” Walton said in an email to the CNN staff. “That starts with a new leader who brings a different perspective, different experiences and a new plan, one who will build on our great foundation and will commit to seeing it through.”
No successor was named for Walton, who has been with Time Warner’s CNN for over 30 years and has run it for close to a decade.
Pressure has been growing on Walton to improve CNN’s sagging performance for the past several years. Though CNN Worldwide is very profitable — Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes told shareholders in May that it should make more than $600 million in 2012 — CNN has lost ground in the United States to News Corp.’s Fox News and Comcast’s MSNBC.
“CNN doesn’t have an identity anymore,” said Christopher Ha
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Walton built the company into a profitable international news organization in his 10 years as president of CNN Worldwide, and said it is on track for record profits this year. But the U.S. network is the most visible part of the business and is now entrenched in third place behind rivals Fox News Channeland MSNBC in prime time.
He announced the decision in an email to staff members on Friday.
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James Walton
James Walton or Jim Walton may refer to:
- James Walton (MP for Preston) (1479/80–1546–50), English politician
- James Walton (MP for Don Valley) (1867–1924), British politician
- James Walton (inventor) (1803–1883), British inventor and industrialist
- James Walton (cricketer) (1857–?), English cricketer
- James B. Walton (1813–1885), veteran of the New Orleans militia enhet the Washington Artillery
- James G. Walton, black American Pentecostal spiritual denominational leader
- Bud Walton (James Lawrence Walton, 1921–1995), younger brother of Sam Walton and cofounder of Wal-Mart
- Jim Walton (born 1948), youngest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
- Jim Walton (journalist) (born 1958), president of CNN Worldwide
- Jim Walton (actor), American actor
- Jim Walton (baseball) (born 1934), American Major League Baseball scout
- Jim Walton (footballer) (1934–2013), former Australian footballer
- James Walton, character in USS Callister