Jon Adler Named CNN’s Senior Vice President, Original Series

Jon Adler, a veteran behind the manufacturing of a lot of CNN’s unique collection, has been named a senior vp overseeing that programming at CNN because the WarnerMedia unit is creating extra documentary content material for its soon-to-launch streaming outlet, CNN Plus.

“With the growth of our mandate to create premium long-form programming for CNN Plus, Jon’s expertise growing distinctive content material for CNN linear will now profit our latest platform,” mentioned Amy Entelis, CNN’s government vp for expertise and content material improvement, in a memo to staffers. “Jon is without doubt one of the most passionate advocates for all issues CNN and we’re excited to see him embark on this new chapter.” Adler experiences to Entelis.

Adler joined CNN in 2012, when the information operation was forming a division to sort out extra documentary programming. Beneath former president Jeff Zucker, CNN put extra weight behind such tasks, initially as a imply of providing viewers one thing compelling at instances when the information cycle wasn’t so livid. Over time, nevertheless, the documentary enterprise has confirmed a fruitful one for CNN. which has shaped a CNN Movies nameplate and has launched signature collection led by such figures as Anthony Bourdain, Stanley Tucci and W. Kamau Bell.

Earlier than becoming a member of CNN as a supervisor of expertise and program improvement, Adler labored for Artistic Artists Company.

He has labored on greater than 30 CNN collection, and has supervised manufacturing of such packages as “Stanley Tucci: Looking for Italy,” “First Women,” “Colin Quinn: Purple State Blue State,” “The Historical past of Comedy,” “Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta” and “Christiane Amanpour: Intercourse and Love Across the World.”