[1] Newsroom features live and taped news reports, in addition to analysis from experts on the issues being covered, and headlines throughout each hour.

The 60-minute-long show based in New York focused on the most important legal news of the day, and aired its last episode on September 23, 2016.

From August 12, 2013, to February 7, 2014, Newsroom, with its reduced airtime, aired weekday mornings for two hours anchored by Carol Costello.

In August 2021, Poppy Harlow announced she would be leaving CNN temporarily to attend a one year law school program.

[14][15] In April 2023, CNN began to replace Newsroom on weekdays with the new format CNN News Central, which is designed as a more "energetic" format with a focus on breaking news coverage, visual elements influenced by its coverage of special events, and teams of anchors present throughout the block.

[19] In February 2024, following the cancellation of CNN This Morning, it was announced that a weekday hour of Newsroom with Jim Acosta would air at 10 a.m.

Wolf Blitzer also began anchoring an 11 a.m. hour of Newsroom as an interim program; the timeslot was to be filled by The Bulletin with Pamela Brown once she returned from maternity leave.

[22] On January 28, 2025, Acosta, who was displaced by the schedule changes, would exit CNN after declining an offer to move to a late-night program.

[24] In September 2014, CNN technology analyst Brett Larson was criticized after incorrectly referring to the imageboard website 4chan as a person, suggesting it was “a systems administrator who knew his away around and how to hack things”.

[25][26] In June 2015, a London gay pride parade included an ISIL parody flag, replacing the Arabic letters with dildos and butt plugs.

Malveaux described the presence of an ISIS flag at a gay pride parade as "unnerving" before a seven-minute live cross to a CNN "terrorism expert" in London.