Three reporters made up the unit, which former CNN president Jeff Zucker created after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in 2020, sparking a national outrage over racism in America.An internal memo leaked early Wednesday indicating that CNN will cut about 100 jobs as part of a plan to consolidate news operations and bolster its digital business.
CNN will merge its news-gathering and digital news teams, invest in video operations and launch pay-per-view news products, CNN Worldwide CEO Mark Thompson told staff in the memo.As part of the reorganization, CNN plans to offer its first-ever digital subscription product for its CNN.com site. A network spokesperson first disavowed the Race and Equality team was being dismantled, but then said it will not exist as a standalone, mission-oriented unit.“They’re assigned to different areas so that perspective and work is brought into all of our types of programming,” the spokesperson said. “It’s not a unit in the way it was before, but is very much still their focus.”