CNN International & Domestic

Anderson Cooper 360 and CNN Tonight are shown on CNN International live, as well. Ana Navarro was better earlier in the evening when she just laid out the evidence, and summed the guy up: Twitter video link.

CNN New York 5th Floor newsroom got a new desk. Big Whoop. How about the rest?!

Joining @CarolCNN at the new 5th floor anchor desk... pic.twitter.com/ToodHP2QDO

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 10, 2016

Looks like they're in the habit of recycling old news.

Under Zucker CNN Domestic takes one or 2 stories and just grind and grind and grind it into a fine powder. And its usually politics. They used to do "other stories" segments. Like a quick run down of the days top stories. Even that is gone. So its nothing but panel after panel of talking heads going on and on all day and night about every political minutia. Just like MSNBC and FNC. Just grinding and grinding away at the same story. Its exhausting to watch and sad to see. Not really sure what the other domestic field reporters are doing across the country because they are never seen on air as its just talking panels all day and night. CNN International is far better if you want some Domestic News and a mix of international stories.

It's still amazing how much more campaign coverage is on CNNI this year compared to previous election years. I don't remember there being so much US campaign coverage in 2012, 2008, or 2004. I understand that many people worldwide might turn to the American network for election coverage and that CNN would want to at least capitalize on it, but it's become too much. In the past, they would just put Jon Mann on in the weekends to give a smart recap. Now, they have that awful Kate Balduan show, tons of CNN US simulcasts, and even a lot of the CNNI-produced shows have tipped the scales for more election coverage. Even though they promised Newsroom LA would be the same format as it had in Atlanta, it's clearly a very different show designed more with American viewers in mind.

I can't wait for this whole thing to be over...

The recap was (and is) well-produced, but because it was weekly rather than daily, it often felt like a rehash of old news. Keep in mind that for many viewers around the world, CNN is the only U.S.-based news channel they have access to. The election is both important and interesting to millions of people, most of whom are likely to turn to CNN for the latest news and commentary about the campaign. Jonathan Mann's recap is more like "let's-explain-the-election-to-those-unfamiliar-with-American-politics" in its approach. Which is fine -- but there are plenty of other international news outlets that take that approach. CNN's domestic coverage, on the other, provides a closer, more first-hand look at the election -- and a perspective viewers can't get from the likes of BBC World News, Al Jazeera, France 24, etc.

That's fair. I probably do have a slightly skewed perspective as a CNNI viewer in the United States, so maybe international viewers really do want an unbridled, fully domestic look into this election. Though there's no denying that CNNI has *vastly* increased its coverage of this election compared to previous elections. A lot of it is the inward-looking, pollster-oriented coverage with a panel of all the usual CNN US suspects. I'd also argue that CNNI viewers would probably be better served with a show like the Lead (which I actually find to be tolerable and substantive) instead of Kate Bolduan's 30 Minutes of Your Life You Will Never Get Back or Wolf Blitzer's nonconsecutive hours of doom and gloom.

If CNNI is to be merely a repurposed international version of its domestic counterpart, then that's very different from what it has been in the last 20 years and very different from what are traditionally seen as its competitors (BBC World, AJE, etc.) I'm not questioning CNNI's intrinsic gravitation to more US-oriented stories, just like how the BBC might cover more of the UK or France 24 and French territories, but in the last year or so, CNNI has gradually felt more like a US network first, international second.

It really makes me wonder what CNN is going to do when this whole election is over and Trump is forgotten. Maybe they will finally be able to get back to MH370 coverage...

Well sadly this is probably the new direction for CNN Domestic. Its cheap and and people watch. Time Warner only is watching the bottom line. They are moving in a couple of years and they need to save up for the first and last months rent (LOL). So its all politics all the time. I was shocked last night when I flipped past domestic and AC360 was airing a story from Ivan Watson on the conditions in Haiti after the Hurricane. So sad.

I understand your point, but I do think this year is so different to what's gone before. Stories on Trump were leading on the BBC News domestic website on Monday and Tuesday this week- which surprised even me. I would like to see The Lead instead of that State of the Race show. I'm also a bit fed up with Political Mann as it does some discussion well, but then very quickly moves on to so many tweets and memes of the week, often followed by another really terrible meme-related report from Jeanne Moos.

I wonder if/how CNNI will change when it moves to being headquartered in London.

Knowing Zucker CNNI will be reduced to a 30 sec news update from London and the rest will be simulcasts from CNN Domestic.

With regard to the amount of US political news being shown on CNNI - let's not forget this is going down as one of the most historic presidential campaigns ever run, if not THE most historic presidential campaigns ever run, so I feel the amount of coverage CNNI is getting is justified.

And it will indirectly affect us in the UK. It's not like the UK news channels aren't covering the election either.