Reese Schonfeld was the cofounder and first president of CNN, later going on to cofound Food Network.Trained as a lawyer, Schonfeld never practiced.
Instead, he got his start working in newsreels with United Press Movietone News, then founded the Independent Television News Association to provide news footage to TV stations.
Ted Turner found Schonfeld there in 1979, asking him to help start a 24-hour news channel. The two launched CNN in 1980 with Schonfeld as its first president, developing programming and hiring commentators including Daniel Schorr (1916 – 2010) and Pat Buchanan.
Turner fired Schonfeld after two years, and in 1993, he cofounded Food Network and became its first president. In later years, Schonfeld was outspoken against.
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