Wow, huge piece. I don't know how magazine writers can do that much writing in a few weeks.
Anyway, CNN is in terminal decline and there is no person or strategy that can save it. Nobody with even moderate brain activity watches cable news these days. The only success you can find in that medium is to pander to self-selected stupid people, outflanking Fox and Newsmax somehow. It seems that Licht has done a lot of damage to the organization, but it was flying into a mountainside regardless.