CNN Exec Allison Gollust Ousted for Sharing Interview Topics With Andrew Cuomo, Misleading About Zucker Affair (Reports)

More details emerged on Friday about the resignation of CNN’s former chief marketing officer Allison Gollust earlier this week following WarnerMedia’s investigation into ousted primetime host Chris Cuomo — including that she had interfered with news coverage of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and had misled investigators about the timeline of her romantic relationship with network president Jeff Zucker.The New York Times reported Friday that in March 2020 Gollust allowed Andrew Cuomo — for whom she had previously worked as a top communications aide — to dictate what questions he would be asked during CNN interviews in the early days of the pandemic. Gollust passed along the Democratic governor’s preferred topics of discussion to CNN producers and reported back to him that his request was “Done,” according to several insiders familiar with the details of the investigation by CNN parent WarnerMedia.WarnerMedia determined that Gollust’s exchanges with Andrew...