David Leavy, a longtime key lieutenant of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, is leaving his present chief working officer function at CNN and returning to the community’s mum or dad, in response to two individuals accustomed to the matter.

“David arrived at CNN in tumultuous occasions and did an excellent job stabilizing the corporate at a troublesome second. Through the transition he led CNN collectively with Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley and Eric Sherling and performed a central half serving to me into my function as chairman and CEO earlier than, as COO, main a number of organizations and groups throughout income, promotion, operations and knowledge,” mentioned Mark Thompson, CNN’s chairman and CEO, in a memo to employees Wednesday. “David fell in love with CNN from the second he walked in and has supported and championed our journalism and our nice model ever since. He’s at all times been a voice for change and confidence sooner or later.”

Particulars about Leavy’s new company function couldn’t be instantly discovered. In years previous, he has overseen company communications and analysis, amongst different key areas.

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