News juggernaut CNN has decided to shut down the opinion vertical on its website permanently as part of an overall restructuring project undertaken by CEO Mark Thompson.

The news of the shutdown was actually revealed several weeks ago in a Substack article by journalist Claire Atkinson. On July 10, CNN opinion editors and contributors were told that they would be laid off effective August 9, Atkinson reported.

A senior executive also confirmed to The Hill that CNN will soon shutter its online opinion section. "We did make the decision at the beginning of the month to sunset the opinion vertical on CNN.com; as a result, we will no longer have a standalone Opinion section," the executive said.

News of the opinion shutdown trickled down to some writers just this week. The unidentified opinion editor apparently tasked with informing these writers about their impending job loss got right to the point.