• Reuters, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:15 AM

CNN will double the number of regions from which its newsgathering staffs operate, even as an advertising slump prompts job cuts at other news organizations.

CNN will add 10 regions of coverage including Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Seattle. It will also hire a handful of employees and reassign some current employees to create a mix of traditional news correspondents and "all-platform journalists," who gather news using laptops, cameras and online editing tools.

"Everyone's a reporter now, even our viewers," says Nancy Lane, CNN executive. The network has said it intends to own more of the programming it runs on the Internet and on-air, rather than relying on news agencies.

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