John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN
John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN, CNN president John Klein said Thursday. CNN has tapped John King to replace Lou Dobbs as the network’s 7 p.m. anchor.
The veteran reporter will move into the 7PM ET slot vacated by Dobbs, who abruptly resigned from the network on Wednesday after 29 years of service.
“The program will reflect what CNN is all about: straight facts from our anchors and the widest range of opinions from across the political spectrum,” CNN president Jonathan Klein said in a statement Thursday morning.
King has been at CNN since 1997, and its chief national correspondent since 2005. He really emerged during the 2008 campaign as a political expert and gained attention for using CNN’s “magic wall” to display voting patterns and information during the run-up and through Election night.
“There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse,” King said in a statement, “which is fun to cover but I’m convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.”
CNN officials announced King was getting the job the morning after Dobbs stunned the TV world by revealing that after nearly 30 years at CNN, he was leaving for good.
John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN was first posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:28 pm.
