Another shift in the TV-news landscape today, as Harry Smith--the former anchor of CBS's beleaguered Early Show--departs for NBC News, where he will work on Brian Williams's as-yet untitled primetime newsmagazine. The glossy allure of new projects (a new prime-time show luring talent like Mr. Smith, a new talk show for Katie Couric) just Read More
Katie Couric is stopping by Today--her old "clickety stiletto heel" stomping ground!--for an interview with Matt Lauer promoting her upcoming book, a collection of essays from luminaries on good advice they'd received. Our advice to Mr. Lauer amid the stream of weird and unexpected TV-news-and-talk reshufflings that form the real reason anyone would Read More
Rachel Maddow rose to the defense of her suspended MSNBC "colleague and friend" Keith Olbermann on her show Friday night. MSNBC President Phil Griffin relieved Olbermann of his hosting duties indefinitely following a report on Politico that revealed Olbermann's campaign contributions to three Democrats in violation of the network's ethics Read More
After broadcasting the first episode of Meet the Press from its new HD studio in the NBC News Washington, D.C. bureau, David Gregory spoke to his staff, champagne flute in hand.
The host began to cry in the middle of his remarks, while discussing the milestone.
"This is a big moment for me, because it's really Read More
NBC News pater familias Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith survived a serious scare on Friday afternoon, sources tell The Observer, when their car was involved in a three car accident on the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx.
The accident, which primarily involved an SUV and a postal truck, left one person dead, according to a Read More
Looks like the buyout offers are coming early this year at 30 Rock.
The Observer has learned that in recent days NBC Universal executives have approached a large number of employees across its news divisions and bureaus, announcing that the company is looking for unspecified number of staffers to take voluntary buyouts. In a series of Read More
NBC News executives announced today that Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will be joining the Today show as a D.C.-based contributing correspondent.
Ms. Hager, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2004, is currently teaching elementary school at a public school in Baltimore, Maryland.
Why is NBC News hiring Read More
NBC News President Steve Capus announced today that he has hired reporter Thanh Truong to be an Atlanta-based correspondent for the network.
Mr. Truong was previously a general assignment reporter at KUSA, the NBC station in Denver, Colorado.
More from the release:
Since joining KUSA in 2006, Truong has reported on a variety of breaking news Read More
Last year, during the Republican National Convention, when Sarah Palin criticized the Eastern media elite of biased reporting, her accusations were met on the convention floor with chants of "NBC! NBC! NBC!" Roughly 11 months later, NBC News' sibling cable channel MSNBC remains the bête noire of many conservative TV viewers. Read More
At NBC News in recent months, there's been a lot of chatter among staffers about what was happening to a network series, apparently in development, about catching real-life war criminals.
The project first surfaced back in February when The New York Times reported on a series of controversies surrounding the project long before it Read More
Back in February, Phil Alongi, the former executive producer of NBC News' specials unit, left 30 Rock for good to start his own media consulting business. For the previous year at NBC, he had been working around the clock to plan, coordinate, and execute TV coverage of the presidential campaign. So what is Mr. Read More
NBC News announced today the promotion of Mark Lukasiewicz, who henceforth will oversee both digital media and specials.
Since 2006, Mr. Lukasiewicz has served as the network's VP of ditigal media. He'll now essentially be taking on the additonal duties that were previously the responsibility of Phil Alongi, the longtime head of the specials unit, who Read More
The ranks of political reporters working on books about the Obama administration has a new distinguished member.
The Observer has learned that Chuck Todd—the defiantly goateed newsman who serves as the chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News—has sold a book proposal to editor Geoff Shandler of Little, Brown about the first few Read More
On Sunday evening, staffers at NBC's Washington, D.C., headquarters on Nebraska Avenue received an ominous warning from management about the work under way on the building—namely, that workers had recently discovered asbestos contamination on the first floor of the facilities.
Last week, The Observer first reported that NBC executives were considering the possibility Read More
NBC is currently exploring the possibility of leasing out part of its longtime headquarters in Washington, D.C., to an outside organization, according to sources familiar with the situation.
One possible partner? American University.
The longtime home of NBC News, MSNBC, and WRC-TV Channel 4—NBC’s owned and operated station in D.C.—is located on Nebraska Read More
