<![CDATA[Was CNN's "Expansion" A Cover-Up For Cutbacks?]]>

1.0 link 120289 <![CDATA[Was CNN's "Expansion" A Cover-Up For Cutbacks?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/21/was-cnns-expansion-a-cove_n_120289.html What CNN is calling expansion will mean reducing the number of staffers assigned to its bureau in Chicago by 25 percent, to nine from a dozen.

Instead, it is scattering "all-platform journalists" across the map, each working solo in locales such as Columbus, Ohio, and Minneapolis until reinforcements are needed.

"What I want to get away from is [the idea] that this poor guy is going to be holding down the fort for all [CNN outlets] and at the end is going...

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