The new top executive at CNN credits President Biden with saving his life more than a decade ago after he suffered a brain aneurysm.
Chris Licht, who was tapped to succeed Jeff Zucker as CNN’s boss earlier this year, recounted the dramatic episode in his 2011 memoir, “What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His Blackberry and Started to Live His Life.”
The book describes Licht, who went on to become executive producer for Stephen Colbert’s late-night show on CBS before landing the top job at CNN, as a “thirty-eight-year-old control freak who thrived in...