Leaving CNN Was How Brooke {NAME} Found Her Voice

Amazon’s Callous Culture • Wild Times at the Trump Trial • A Lone MTG [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Leaving CNN Was How Brooke {NAME} Found Her Voice Hello from the Hive newsroom. “When I signed off from CNN Newsroom on April 16, 2021, I couldn’t tell the whole truth,” [writes]( former anchor Brooke {NAME}. In an essay for VF, she describes a contentious and manipulative relationship with her executive producer, and why she had to leave the network after 13 years. Elsewhere, Jack McCordick [speaks]( with The Wall Street Journal’s Amazon reporter, Dana Mattioli, about the challenges of covering an infamously secretive and combative company, and which candidate she thinks Amazon execs want to see back in the White House come January 2025. Plus, according to at least one Fox News host, [writes]( Bess Levin, Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is basically the most unfair thing that’s ever happened to anyone in human history. Meanwhile, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker [testified]( Tuesday and, well, it did not appear to go well for the ex-president. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Blonde, Hair, Person, Body Part, Face, Head, Neck, Accessories, Jewelry, Necklace, and Adult]( [Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice]( By [Brooke {NAME}]( [Former anchor Brooke {NAME} exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary—and insidious.]( [Read more button](   [Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch”]( By [Jack McCordick]( [In an interview with Vanity Fair, reporter Dana Mattioli reveals how the company systematically stifles criticism, squeezes out competitors, and even pits its own employees against one another. “People tend not to last,” she says, “because it’s very aggressive and it can be bruising.”]( [Read more button](   [“Help the Campaign”: Former National Enquirer Publisher’s Testimony Seems Pretty Bad for Donald Trump]( By [Bess Levin]( [David Pecker told a jury on Tuesday how he did everything he could to help Trump get elected, following a 2015 meeting with the then candidate.]( [Read more button](   [Fox News One Day Away From Likening the Trump Trial to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ]( By [Bess Levin]( [According to Jesse Watters, Donald Trump is being frozen “to death” and treated like a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.]( [Read more button](   [The Motion to Vacate Mike Johnson Seems Pretty Darn Motionless]( By [Eric Lutz]( [Only two Republicans support Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust the House Speaker, while Donald Trump may have just thrown him a big lifeline.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast