CNN will hire 450 people to help launch new streaming service CNN+, which will debut in the first quarter of 2022.
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker was joined by executive vice president Andrew Morse, head of product and general manager of CNN+ Alex MacCallum and senior vice president and head of programming for CNN+ Rebecca Kutler for a town hall broadcast Tuesday. The employee town hall came one day after CNN announced CNN+.
In it, Morse explained that the company would hire 450 people to work on CNN+ and existing employees were encouraged to apply to the open roles, some of which were already posted for them to view.