David Leavy will leave CNN and return to duties at corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery, where he has long been a key aide to CEO David Zaslav ...

Longtime Discovery executive David Leavy stepped in to manage the news brand right as former CEO Chris Licht was ousted two years ago.

David Leavy is departing his position as chief operating officer of CNN Worldwide and will return to parent Warner Bros. Discovery. Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN, wrote that Leavy “has ...

On Thursday the company announced that David Leavy, currently WBD’s chief corporate affairs officer, will become COO of the news brand, reporting to CNN CEO Chris Licht. Leavy is a 23-year ...

David Leavy, a longtime confidant of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, was named chief operating officer of CNN Thursday, in a move that may free up CEO Chris Licht to focus more intently ...

Now, Thursday’s announcement that David Leavy, a longtime loyalist of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, will become CNN’s COO has “fueled talk of an imminent power struggle — and ...

Discovery boss David Zaslav thanks him for his contributions ... The case for the Licht-Leavy turnaround plan is this: Licht can focus on the programming side of things (as well as the now ...

CNN on Thursday named longtime Discovery Inc. executive David C. Leavy as chief operating officer of CNN Worldwide, effective June 20. Leavy, who spent 23 years at Discovery Inc. and its successor ...

David Leavy, a longtime key lieutenant of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, is leaving his current chief operating officer role at CNN and returning to the network’s parent, according to ...

David Leavy, who’s been steering the ship as Chief Operating Officer at CNN Worldwide since mid-2023, is stepping away from the role at the end of June 2025. He’s heading back to familiar ...