CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’ Will Publish in Morning Amid Brian Stelter’s Return to Frenetic Field for Media-on-Media News
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor People who want to see what Brian Stelter has planned for CNN’s “Reliable Sources” media newsletter won’t have to wait as long as they might think.
Starting Monday, “RS” will publish each weekday morning, Monday through Friday, and the next edition — the first to be issued since Stelter returned to CNN last week after a two-year absence — could post as soon as 30 minutes after the article you are reading right now sees the light of day.
The A.M. posting and the new five-days-a-week schedule -– “Reliable Sources” had most recently been published evenings Monday through Thursday — are “experimental, in beta mode,” says Stelter, during a brief conversation Sunday evening, while he worked on the newsletter and prepared his kids to get ready for bed. “I also think there’s a space to be a little more forward looking to the day ahead,” he adds, noting that the “new iteration” of the newsletter “is going to be shorter.
It’s going to be sharper.” Stelter, 39 years old, returns to “Reliable Sources” and CNN at a heady moment. There’s a presidential election looming.
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