The Revolving CNN Door

TVNewser is reporting that CNN's Abbi Tatton, internet reporter for The Situation Room, is leaving the network. That's three CNN changes reported today by TVNewser.
TVN writes "CNN confirms the departure. A CNN spokesperson says, 'Abbi is a Situation Room original and has been a wonderful colleague at CNN — both on and off the air — for nearly a decade. We're sorry Abbi has decided to leave the network but we're thrilled she has other opportunities. We truly wish her all the best.'"

Tatton's last day at CNN will be tomorrow.

A native of England, Tatton is based in Washington, D.C. She joined CNN in 2000, and has worked as a producer for Inside Politics, Crossfire, and On the Story, and for the CNN Election Express.

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Specials, Books and Clips

For all our readers who get CNNInternational. After negotiating 10 months for a visa to gain access to the war ravaged Darfur region of Sudan, CNN’s senior international correspondent Nic Robertson presents a half-hour special documentary "Darfur: Out of Control" which will be airing Sat. July 5: 0600, 1400, 1900 Sun. July 6: 0600 (All times GMT). To see more information about the special, you can check out the Darfur - Out of Control page on cnn.com

For all the Morning Express with Robin Meade fans, you probably noticed that Robin has not been on this week Well Robin posted a blog post on the new Morning Express blog about her "working vacation".

Hello from my “working” vacation
Posted: 11:15 AM ET

Hi guys…

Many thanks to our fellow blogging viewers. YES! I do read all of your comments!
I’m not exactly on vaca this week…I’m actually working on my book, due out next year. A publishing company came to me and asked if I’d do it.
What subjects would interest you for this non-fiction/motivational/inspirational/how-to/autobiographical book? I already have a working plan, but would love to hear from you too.
So, keep posting your comments!

Alrighty…back to the working “vacation.” Miss ya!


Looking forward to seeing the end result of Robin's upcoming book.



What post would be complete without some fun clips on Thursday.

On Thursday June 26th during a segment of Anderson Cooper 360, Anderson Cooper asks David Gergen if he had a new side job.

During Friday June 27th Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer, Abbi Tatton and Jack Cafferty discuss so anti-Obama websites including PUMA.

For all the Poppy Harlow fans out there, Don Lemon and Kyra Phillips got the facts on Poppy during the afternoon edition of NewsRoom on Monday June 30.

On Tuesday July 1st, CNN pulled the ever running Pedegg ad from it's airwaves. Going into commercial Kyra Phillips, Don Lemon and Chad Myers had a quick preview of the story coming up after the break during NewsRoom . A few ewwws were certainly involved.

During Tuesday July 1st, Election Center Soledad O'Brien and Ali Velshi do a demonstration with falling Domino's to get the point across.

At the end of Wednesday July 2nd American Morning, John Robert forgot he would be back later in the day to host Situation Room. Kiran Chetry was happy to remind John that being on air for 6 live hours can do that to you. John considered a quick nap to which Tony Harris seemingly agreed.

To all our American readers, have a fun and safe Independence Day. Happy 4th of July to all!!!


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Luck Of The Draw

This weekend has been all about politics on CNN. Coverage of the Nevada Caucuses and the Republican South Carolina Primary started at 1PM ET on Saturday afternoon. The early coverage was anchored by Wolf Blitzer and John King live from the CNN Election Center in New York.

They had reports from Abbi Tatton, Ali Velshi, Candy Crowley, Dana Bash, Juan Carlos Lopez and Christine Romans. Bill Schneider was providing the break down of the voters from entrance and exit polls.

John King was working the telestrator and talked with the panel of analysts: Gloria Borger, Bill Bennett, Donna Brazile, and Jeffrey Toobin.

Jacqui Jeras provided the weather report for South Carolina. There were concerns that the miserable weather would keep voters from going to the polls. Jeffrey Toobin put things in perspective with this: Forgive me for displaying a north eastern bias here but it’s not exactly a blizzard in South Carolina. Its 40 degrees. It’s a little rain. There’s some snow. Go vote if you want to vote. It’s not like you need a tractor to get to the polling place. Come on! Toughen up, folks!

The best part of the afternoon coverage was getting to see an actual caucus live. There were 9 special Democrat caucuses setup on the Las Vegas Strip for shift workers. Ali Velshi was at the caucus held in one of the Caesars Palace ballrooms. They aired the entire process from the caucus goers waiting for things to get started once they were checked in, the first count for each of the candidates, the announcement of the who didn’t make the 15% threshold, and the process of doing a second and final count once all caucus goers had selected a candidate. I’ve never experienced a caucus myself and this was a fascinating process to watch. The Obama and Clinton supporters were passionately cheering for their candidates as they waited for the caucus to begin. I’ve never been to a polling place where folks brought their mega phones. The results from this particular caucus: 80 people for Clinton; 86 people for Obama. This translated into 17 county delegates for Obama and 16 county delegates for Clinton.

Saturday’s Ballot Bowl 08 coverage started at 4:30PM ET with Jessica Yellin, Dana Bash, Mary Snow, and Candy Crowley.

Coverage continued from the CNN Election Center at 6:30PM ET. My post on that broadcast can be found on All Things Anderson.

CNN’s coverage of the election results didn’t stop when the CNN Newsroom took over during the 10PM ET hour. Tony Harris spoke with Tom Komenda from a precinct in North Vegas about how they broke a tie between Clinton and Obama on Saturday. Below is the clip:

CNN reported some sad news on Sunday morning. Saturday night, Fran Lewine, who was a former AP White House correspondent and currently a producer at CNN passed away. Below are clips from the tribute that CNN did on Reliable Sources and Late Edition. She would have been 87 years old on Sunday. She had planned to celebrate her 87th birthday on Sunday at Charles Town Races in West Virginia, where friends had arranged to have a race named in her honor.

Ballot Bowl 08 continued on Sunday with John King anchoring from Florida.

Dana Bash, Jessica Yellin, Peter Hamby, and Bill Schneider provided reports from South Carolina.

John King is a fan of Fred. Now don’t go jumping to conclusions here, we’re not talking about the actor / presidential candidate. Here’s the clip from Sunday’s Ballot Bowl:

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Mystery Journalist

This week's Mystery Journalist was Betty Nguyen.

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