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The Independence Desk

Independent file on CNN and CBS News. Not an office of either network, Paramount, or Warner Bros. Discovery.

About

The desk

Who gets to decide what CNN and CBS News may air, and what happens when staff say the owner or the state is in the cut.

Came up making hip-hop in the 2000s.

Did the work. Did not get the institutional stamp.

Independent reporting now. The piece is the name. One person is the editor. Models are research assistants only: they may sort, transcribe, compare, and check dates. The human owns the finding and the lede.

No faction brief. If someone pays, it is said. Reader support is disclosed on the tips page. This is not an application for a seat. There is no résumé here.