Jeff Zucker’s View From Outside CNN: He Could Do Better

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The seminar was to be on media leadership. Dozens of students filling a classroom at Yale University in April were there to learn about the business from a man who had commanded attention in TV control rooms and corporate boardrooms for decades before a stunning exit last year.What they got was remarkable candor about that exit.Jeff Zucker, who had been president of CNN for nine years, told the group that he believed the network’s former owners used his relationship with Allison Gollust — who was also in attendance — as a pretext for removing him, three people familiar with his comments said.In front of the students — where other high-profile media executives, including Bob Iger of Dis …

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