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June 2, 2025
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Top CNN Reporter OUT After Outlet Pays Navy Vet Millions of Dollars in Defamation Settlement


A top CNN reporter announced he is leaving the network after the outlet was forced to pay a Navy vet millions of dollars in a defamation settlement.

โ€œSome personal news: Iโ€™m leaving CNN after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but itโ€™s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates Iโ€™ve worked with in the US and abroad,โ€ Alex Marquardt said on Monday.

In January, CNN paid Navy Vet Zachary Young an undisclosed settlement for punitive damages after it was already ordered to pay $5 million in emotional and financial damages.

Zachary Young sued CNN for defamation over a 2021 report on his work helping Afghans during Bidenโ€™s botched withdrawal.

The lawsuit against CNN stemmed from their coverage of Bidenโ€™s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which the court previously determined showcased โ€œactual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enoughโ€ for Plaintiff Zachary Young to seek damages.

Young, who was offering to transport Afghans out of the country to flee the Taliban in 2021, was accused by Tapper and CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt of running a โ€œblack marketโ€ scheme and exploiting โ€œdesperate Afghansโ€ for personal gain while disregarding the dangers and circumstances surrounding the evacuation efforts.

Tapper even maliciously and sarcastically highlighted Youngโ€™s use of the word โ€œunfortunatelyโ€ in a message to the network about the โ€œextremely limitedโ€ availability of evacuations and high demand, as if to imply that Young was benefitting from the situation.

Young argued that the network intentionally painted him in a bad light and harmed his security consulting company.

The jury found CNN guilty of defamation earlier this year.

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