CNN journalists, executives and luminaries past and present gathered Wednesday in Atlanta to honor the legacy of founder Ted Turner, whose grandson said he would be "the first to speak up" against the kind of media consolidation that the original cable-news network now faces.

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are jumping from New Year’s Eve shots to Fourth of July fireworks. The pair, which has held forth the past several years as hosts of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage from New York’s Times Square, will now do something ...