CNN urges website staff to take cues from Fox News

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The audience development team for CNN has recently begun highlighting popular internet stories from rival Fox News that were missed by their own staff, according to a report by the Daily Beast.

Several sources claimed that a company-wide Slack messaging channel at CNN has been sharing popular online stories from Fox News alongside a fox emoji, which indicates that CNN did not cover that story, and likely should have. The news network is reportedly concerned that their current online traffic is in danger of shrinking as Fox News online increases in popularity.

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