Departing CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin criticized the news network on her way out the door, suggesting not enough was done by the company to ensure equal opportunities for women.
“The most influential anchors on our network, the highest-paid, are men,” Baldwin said on the Ms. Magazine podcast this week. “My bosses, my executives, are men. The person who oversees CNN Dayside is a man, and my executive producer for 10 years is a man. So I’ve been surrounded by a lot of men.”
“I was surrounded by a lot of dudes,” Baldwin said, adding that she was told “no a lot” while working on her CNN series American Women.
Baldwin did say that the network is getting better “little by little” at providing opportunities for women but that more needs to be done.
“It’s getting better, but we still have a bit of a ways to go,” she said. “I want more women in the room.”
Baldwin announced in February that her 13-year run at CNN was coming to an end after cryptic Instagram posts last year suggested she was being forced off the air in favor of fellow CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
“As the election gears up, the political maestro @jaketapper will hold down my hour and his for the coming weeks. Wish I was with you, but I’ll see ya on [TV] on the flip side of the election,” Baldwin tweeted back in October.
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“Why are you taking so many weeks off at such an important time?” one fan asked her, prompting a response of “Not my choice” from Baldwin.
CNN, the only cable news network without a female host in its prime-time lineup, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Washington Examiner.
