CNN President Jeff Zucker is scheduled to meet today in Atlanta with the leadership of the National Association of Black Journalists to discuss the state of black journalists at the network, FishbowlDC has learned.

Bob Butler, Vice President of Broadcast for NABJ, posted a note on the group’s Yahoo list serve last night saying that he, President Greg Lee and Executive Director Maurice Foster, will sit down with Zucker today.

The meeting comes on the heels of an announcement last week that morning show anchor and NABJ member Soledad O’Brien is transitioning to a new and less visible role at the network producing documentaries.

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Think of this as an afternoon snack.

Gawker alerts us to this treat of a video in which it took anchor Tony Harris a while for things to fully sink in as reporter Mary Lynn Ryan tried to explain to him yesterday’s news of the Austin, Texas plane crash. The news was that a software engineer with a gripe against the U.S. government crashed his plane into an office building with IRS workers and died.

“Let’s break it down,” Harris says, after struggling to piece together the details of the blazing house fire.

Funny stuff.

Watch here.