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LITTLE ROCK — Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC News to host a new morning show at CNN,where new boss Jeff Zucker is moving fast to try to turn around the cable news pioneer, which has fallen onhard times. CNN’s managing editor, Mark Whitaker, announced Tuesday that he was quitting, officially Zucker’s seventh day on the job as CNN Worldwide president. Longtime political consultants and commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin also are leaving. Cuomo is expected to be paired with current evening anchor Erin Burnett in the mornings. CNN said Tuesday that it was discussing other job options with Soledad O’Brien, who will be ending her second stint as morning show co-host. “Chris is an accomplished anchor who is already an established name in morning television,” Zucker said. “What I love about Chris is that he is passionate about every story he tells, never forgets about the viewer and represents the type of journalism that makesCNN great.” Cuomo, the 20/20 co-anchor, is the second big defection from ABC to CNN in a little more than a month, the other being Jake Tapper. Cuomo wasn’t made available for comment.

Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan won the John Newbery Medal for the outstanding book of 2012, and Jon Klassen’s This Is Not My Hat received the Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration, the American Library Association announced Monday.The Newbery and Caldecott awards are the top honors for children’s literature. Applegate’s book tells of a daydreaming gorilla and the life lessons he receives through his friendship with a baby elephant. It was inspired by a real gorilla, one who lived decades without meeting another of his kind before spending his final, happy years at an Atlanta zoo. Klassen was the author and illustrator of This Is Not My Hat, his picture story about a fish and his blue hat, which was the successor to Klassen’s popular I Want My Hat Back.