NEW YORK: Walter Isaacson has stepped down as head of CNN just 18 months after taking the job to restore the pioneering all-news network's ratings dominance that it had lost to upstart Fox News, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The CNN chief's resignation on Monday added to the turmoil at media powerhouse AOL Time Warner, which only 24 hours early had seen its chairman Steve Case quit.
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