Cable World, September 17th, 2001
On September 3, Paula Zahn was an employee of Fox News Channel and host of a talk show called The Edge. Just one week later, she was the lead anchor on the biggest story in the history of television news for the most-watched cable news network.
And just like that, CNN raised the curtain on the new faces of the network in front of its largest audience since the Gulf War. During the first two-and-a-half days of the network's coverage, Zahn, mostly alongside Aaron Brown, another CNN newcomer, logged between 24 and 28 hours on the air making them by far the most visible personalities on CNN.
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