Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president, was under a gag order related to a legal fight stemming from a leak investigation, the network said. A judge recently lifted the order.Credit...John Lamparski/WireImage
CNN disclosed on Wednesday that the Justice Department had fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of one of its reporters — and that as part of the fight the government imposed a gag order on the network’s lawyers and its president, Jeff Zucker.
The news network’s disclosure came less than a week after a lawyer for The New York Times revealed that he and a handful of lawyers and executives for the newspaper had been gagged as part of a similar fight stemming from a leak investigation.