Recent legislation concentrates authority with the agency’s chief executive, and would replace its current bipartisan board with an advisory council. The current top managers, appointed in the Obama administration and drawn largely from traditional media backgrounds, expect to lose their jobs if Mr. They include the agency’s current chief executive, John Lansing, a journalist and former president of Scripps Networks, and Amanda Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who runs Voice of America. For now, though, they have intensified its efforts to encourage professionalism, reinforce ethical standards and remind staff of safeguards against political interference. In a Twitter post last month, Mr. Trump criticized the way CNN portrays the country and raised the possibility of the United States starting “our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!”

Source: New York Times December 13, 2018 01:17 UTC