Chris Licht, the former television producer who oversaw a brief and chaotic run as the chairman of CNN, is out at the network.David Zaslav, the chief executive of CNN’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, informed staff on Wednesday morning that he had met with Mr. Licht and that he was leaving, effective immediately.Mr. Licht’s 13-month run at CNN was marked by one controversy after another. He got off to a bumpy start even before he had officially started when he oversaw the shuttering of the costly CNN+ streaming service at the request of its network’s new owners, who were skeptical about a stand-alone digital product. The cuts resulted in scores of layoffs.“For a number of reasons things didn’t work out, and that’s unfortunate,” Mr. Zasla …
