Change doesn’t at all times occur in a single day… typically it takes a complete 12 months. And also you don’t should be an professional reader of tea leaves to acknowledge that 2024 has been a pivot level for TV information.

The regular accumulation of resignations, promotions, job modifications, and company reorgs—in addition to just a few notable passings of celebrated journalists—over the previous 12 months affirm {that a} very totally different panorama awaits the trade past that proverbial revolving door in 2025.

To kick off the final full week of 2024, TVNewser seems again on among the greatest departures, profession relaunches, and shake-ups of this calendar 12 months—and the way they contributed to the bigger local weather of change round TV information.

Don Lemon’s present on X, previously Twitter, was canceled earlier than it even started.

January—March

  • Medhi Hasan was the primary outstanding journalist to depart their outlet on the high of 2024. In January, the former MSNBC anchor introduced that he could be exiting the community following the cancellation of The Medhi Hasan Present the earlier November. Hasan later went independent by launching the Substack-based media group Zeteo—a transfer that different Newsers would comply with because the 12 months unfolded.
  • Former CBS Sunday Morning host Charles Osgood passed away at age 91 on Jan. 23, eight years after he retired from this system. Osgood’s soothing voice outlined Sunday mornings for a lot of viewers throughout his 22-year tenure on CBS and evoked a bygone period of broadcasting. “He was the most effective broadcast stylists and one of many final,” his good friend and current CBS Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley noticed in a press release.
  • CNN started its transformational 12 months beneath CEO Mark Thompson in February by overhauling its weekday morning schedule. Early Begin was rebranded as CNN This Morning—with Phil Mattingly and Poppy Harlow departing the earlier model of the latter present (Harlow left CNN entirely in April)—whereas CNN Information Central moved earlier within the AM. Thompson would later outline his larger plans for the community, together with a renewed emphasis on digital merchandise.
  • Elon Musk telegraphed his rightward shift early within the 12 months, abruptly terminating former CNN anchor Don Lemon‘s much-heralded partnership with X, previously Twitter. Lemon interviewed Musk forward of the launch of The Don Lemon Present and requested questions that his new employer clearly didn’t care to reply. “We had a great dialog,” Lemon wrote after Musk cancelled his yet-to-debut collection. “Clearly he felt otherwise.” Lemon deactivated his X account in November following the presidential election.
  • In one other short-lived tenure, former RNC chair and vocal Donald Trump supporter Ronna McDaniel was hired and then fired by NBC Information within the span of 5 days in March. Her impending arrival created a furor amongst outstanding MSNBC hosts—most notably Rachel Maddow—and swiftly led NBCUniversal Group Chairman Cesar Conde to chop ties with McDaniel. The incident mirrored MSNBC’s attentiveness to its largely progressive audience because the election cycle kicked into gear.