CNN en Español: We’re moving to Mexico to optimize our news in Spanish linear operation

CNN en Español is in the process of cutting down its linear news operation, so it will move production to the Mexico City offices and will present new multiplatform programming. This will inevitably lead to layoffs in the Miami and Atlanta offices.

In a memo sent to employees, Cynthia Hudson, SVP and general director of CNN en Español and US Hispanic Strategy for CNN said: “We will also invest in CNNE’s digital platform, safeguarding CNNE’s news gathering strength in the US and using our investments across the network in content management to create a vastly improved digital user experience. I informed the CNN en Español team about these changes, which will impact some of our colleagues.”

Hudson also recalled Chris Licht, CEO of CNN Worldwide, saying at the end of last year that the company was working on a “sustainable business strategy for CNN en Español that would allow us to maintain our position of world leadership in news and information in Spanish.”

To conclude the memo, Hudson pointed out that she believes, like Licht, that these changes will allow the network better to serve its audiences in the US, Latin America, and around the world, “providing reliable news and information in the right way in the suitable platforms, now and in the future. I want to share my enormous appreciation for the tireless dedication that every CNN en Español staff member has shown daily in building this vitally important part of CNN’s portfolio.”

In the upcoming weeks, the company will reveal the details of the network’s new direction and some appointments.