Katie Couric is to head to ABC, ending widespread speculation to that effect, announced the network today. The former CBS Evening News anchor is to, this summer, "anchor specials, contribute interviews, participate in special events coverage and bring her many talents to bear on some of the most important and interesting stories of the Read More
ABC announced today that David Muir is to anchor their weekend World News broadcasts. The youthful Muir, who recently returned from Cairo, is something of an ABC lifer, having reported for World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline. Sounds like Muir has a good working relationship with the reportedly hard-to-love Read More
"There isn't a single program on ABC News that doesn't bear the imprint of David Westin," Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz said to begin a segment on recently retired ABC News president David Westin on his his CNN show yesterday.
Mr. Kurtz asked his panelists if they thought Mr. Westin was pushed or nudged out Read More
After more than 13 years leading the division, ABC News president David Westin announced his resignation in a memo to his staff Monday night.
Mr. Westin wrote that he was leaving to pursue other professional opportunities. "I've always admired those few who know when it's time to move on. This is the right time for me," Read More
On Tuesday ABC News published a major exclusive about increased security on flights between the United States and Dubai from Brian Ross, the network's chief investigative correspondent. The story has since been removed from network's website, according to Salon's Justin Elliott.
A spokesman for ABC told Mr. Elliott that the network never retracted the story Read More
Howard Kurtz shadowed Diane Sawyer while she was running around during a day of production for ABC World News at the network's studios on Columbus Avenue.
To start the day, Ms. Sawyer looks like a "64-year-old housewife in need of a cup of coffee," wrote Mr. Kurtz.
Later Mr. Kurtz showed Ms. Sawyer ducking in Read More
To the editors of The New York Observer,
I am writing in defense of Mimi Gurbst because I can no longer countenance the abuse of anonymity that has allowed others to cowardly malign her in perpetuity on the Internet. Like Mimi Gurbst, I worked at ABC for nearly thirty years. I no longer work Read More
In recent years, when she wasn't putting together stories as a senior producer for ABC's World News or helping to oversee global news-gathering operations as a network vice president, Mimi Gurbst liked to advise her colleagues on various ways to improve their personal and professional lives.
Somewhere along the say, sources tell The Observer, Ms. Gurbst Read More
Today, ABC News announced that is has teamed up with New York based company Daylife (creators of a publishing platform once described in The Observer as "Huffington Post in a box") to boost its digital reporting with some 70,000 topic pages.
"Topics include everything from Tiger Woods, to Apple’s iPad," an ABC News Read More
Fact!
This Sunday, Bill Adair, Washington bureau chief of the St. Petersburg Times and editor of PolitiFact, will join ABC News to fact check the newsmakers (Hillary Clinton! Robert Gates! Rudy Giuliani!) appearing on ABC's This Week.
Fact!
Jake Tapper will be hosting.
Fact!
Mr. Tapper and Mr. Adair know each other from "fact-checking forums."
Fact!
In the end, perhaps somewhat predictably, David Westin went with the biggest star.
Today, Mr. Westin, the president of ABC News, officially announced that the network had hired Christiane Amanpour as the new anchor of the Sunday public affairs program, This Week.
The high-profile D.C. gig has been vacant since the fall when George Stephanopoulos replaced Diane Sawyer Read More
With the audiences for traditional network news shows steadily declining, (see the PEJ's State of the News Media 2010) executives at the broadcast news divisions are continuing to brainstorm new ideas on how to expand their offerings. For example, ABC News executives, according to multiple sources, have recently tossed around the idea of creating Read More
ABC, undaunted by our general unwillingness to pay for stuff, will be establishing a paywall by June. This isn't the first time they've had such plans, reports paidContent:
Back in 2003, it created a premium programme tied to the 2004 presidential election. Also at that time, ABCNews, along with CNN, put video Read More
On Tuesday afternoon, ABC News President David Westin wrote a lengthy memo to his staff detailing the network's plans to significantly reduce its work force in the weeks and months ahead. We're still digesting much of the memo, but one sentence immediately caught our attention.
"Our programs are stronger today than they were ten years Read More
On Tuesday afternoon, ABC News executives informed their staff that the division will be undergoing a major transformation. Mass buyouts will be offered. And several hundred staff members (up to perhaps one-quarter of the 1200 to 1400 total individuals in the division) are expected to lose their jobs. In the wake of grim news in Read More
