CNN Spending $20 Million, Hiring 200 in Shift to Digital

Digiday: As CNN’s new VP of digital programming, Mitra Kalita will head a team of up to 18 that will program for mobile and social as well as the homepage and alerts. It’s part of a bigger shift by CNN to digital from TV, for which it’s spending $20 million and hiring 200 people. “If you’re not thinking about where people will read it, it’s not going to be that successful.”