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<p>The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-is-shutting-down-less-than-a-month-after-launch">staff shakeups at CNN</a> under new management and ownership continue. White House correspondent John Harwood <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1565731351617277957">announced Friday</a> that “today’s my last day at CNN,” tweeting that he looks “forward to figuring out what’s next.” </p>
<p>Harwood came to the network in Jan. 2020 after spending 13 years at CNBC as a Washington correspondent, where he broke the news in 2008 that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. In 2015, he made a name for himself as a harsh Donald Trump critic <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/live-from-boulder/2015/10/donald-trump-john-harwood-question-gop-debate-215302">after clashing with the then-candidate</a> in a GOP primary debate—a reputation<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-john-harwood-explains-why-absolutely-lunatic-stuff-is-being-discussed-in-the-white-house-the-president-himself-is-a-kook/"> that continued</a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/03/30/cnns-john-harwood-trump-is-mentally-unwell-in-a-way-that-makes-him-interested-exclusively-in-what-benefits-him/?sh=51895f62261a">at CNN</a>. </p>
<p>His departure comes shortly after the network’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter—long an antagonist of right-wing media—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/reliable-sources-host-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn">was terminated and his show canned</a>. </p>
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Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty
The staff shakeups at CNN under new management and ownership continue. White House correspondent John Harwood announced Friday that “today’s my last day at CNN,” tweeting that he looks “forward to figuring out what’s next.”
Harwood came to the network in Jan. 2020 after spending 13 years at CNBC as a Washington correspondent, where he broke the news in 2008 that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. In 2015, he made a name for himself as a harsh Donald Trump critic after clashing with the then-candidate in a GOP primary debate—a reputation that continuedat CNN.
His departure comes shortly after the network’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter—long an antagonist of right-wing media—was terminated and his show canned.
