Brian Stelter Returns to CNN Two Years After Network Canceled His Show
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Brian Stelter is back at CNN. In an email to subscribers of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” media newsletter, Stelter said he will be returning as the lead author of the publication that he founded in 2015.
He said he will relaunch the newsletter on Sept. 9. Under CNN’s previous leadership regime, the news network parted ways with Stelter after cancelling the TV show (also called “Reliable Sources”) in 2022.
Stelter returns to pick up the mantle of “Reliable Sources” newsletter after the exit last month of Oliver Darcy, who had come aboard to work on the newsletter and was assigned to keep the newsletter moving.
Darcy has launched a newsletter called “Status,” covering media, entertainment and the tech industry. “But this is not going to be a ‘Back to the Future’ remake,” Stelter wrote in the email Tuesday. “The media industry has matured, CNN has evolved, and I have changed a lot since I signed off two years ago.
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