Jon Petrovich in St. Louis, Missouri. Petrovich was executive vice president for CNN's Headline News (now HLN) in Atlanta, Georgia. Ted Turner hired him to lead Headline News in the mid-1980s. He oversaw CNN Radio and was directly involved in business development and marketing for all CNN networks. In 1994, he funded the establishment of CNN.com, and helped create CNN Airport Network and CNN en Español. He is widely credited with launching CNN Radio Noticias, CNN NewsSource. While executive vice president of CNN Headline News, the network incorporated factoids into its on-air half-hour news wheel format. After his role at CNN, Petrovich
History of CNN (1980–2003) a CNN issue – every journalist who was in any way involved in 9/11 is partly responsible." In April 2003, Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, wrote an op-ed piece in "The New York Times" stating that he had lobbied the Iraqi government for 12 years in order to maintain a CNN presence in Iraq. He also admitted to withholding what would be considered newsworthy information of the government's atrocities, citing fears that releasing news would potentially endanger the lives of Iraqis working for CNN in Baghdad, some of whom had already been subject to beatings and torture. Critics