Sawyer to depart ABC anchor desk
TV news legend Dan Rather gives Jeffrey Toobin his take on the big changes at ABC News, where Diane Sawyer will be replaced as "World News" anchor by David Muir and new "chief anchor" George Stephanopoulos.
David Muir to replace Diane Sawyer on "World News"
By Brian Stelter, CNN
Diane Sawyer will step down from ABC's flagship nightly newscast, "World News," in August, ABC said Wednesday.
David Muir, the weekend "World News" anchor, will replace her starting September 2.
The announcement ends months of speculation about a transition at ABC's anchor desk.
In a first-of-its-kind arrangement, Muir will not be the main anchor for big breaking news stories or elections - that spot will go to "Good Morning America" co-host George Stephanopoulos, who will have the title "chief anchor."
Disproving predictions of nightly newscasts' demise
By Brian Stelter, CNN
The next time I'm asked about the relevance of the network nightly news, my answer will involve Edward Snowden and Hillary Clinton.
Later this week, NBC will feature Snowden's first television interview since he decided to leak top-secret NSA documents to Glenn Greenwald and other reporters. The questioner is Brian Williams, the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News."
In a couple of weeks, ABC will have Clinton's first interview about her book "Hard Choices." The interviewer is Diane Sawyer, the anchor of "World News."
These are two Q&A's that every television network wanted to have — "big gets" at a time when there are fewer and fewer of them.
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MSNBC, ABC in Cinco de Mayo flap
Univision’s Maria Elena Salinas gives her reaction to two Cinco de Mayo segments that played upon stereotypical images of Mexicans.
George Stephanopoulos renews ABC contract
By Brian Stelter, CNN
George Stephanopoulos just nipped months of television industry speculation in the bud.
His contract with ABC was due to come up for renewal at the end of this year. People inside that Disney (DIS, Fortune 500)-owned network and at rivals had already started to wonder whether Stephanopoulos would stay with ABC, and if so, at what price.
But ABC News put any fears of Stephanopoulos leaving to rest Thursday by confirming that he had already signed a new contract.
Stephanopoulos, one of the network news division's most important players, will continue to co-host "Good Morning America" on weekdays and host "This Week" on Sundays.
Read more of Brian's article on CNN.com here.
Welcoming in 2014
Brian Stelter talks with Ryan Seacrest about hosting another “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin about their New Year’s Eve special.
Bashir resigns amid scandal
Eric Deggans, Paul Farhi, Jane Hall and Brian Stelter assess the fallout from the MSNBC host’s controversial comments, apology and resignation.
ABC’s talking points flub
Jennifer Rubin, David Shuster, Jane Hall & Howard Kurtz on ABC’s reporting on the Benghazi talking points emails.
What we're reading this week
By Laura Koran, CNN
Topics we’ll be covering this Sunday include a survey on the state of the media and a new biography of media mogul Roger Ailes. In the mean time, here are some other stories Reliable Sources found interesting.
Predicting the future – How will the world look 25 years from now? How will we travel? Work? Consume information? Spend our free time? These are some of the questions that the Los Angeles Times Magazine tried to answer in a special 1988 issue and, believe it or not, some of the forecasts were dead on. The magazine correctly predicted modern e-mail and the use of Botox. Some of their predictions, like robot maids, seem to have missed the mark, but if Harlem Shake videos can take the world by storm, can “futura-rock” really be far behind?
Child labor? – He may look young, but David Muir has been in the news business for over a quarter century. That’s because the ABC World News weekend anchor started his first internship at the tender age of 13. Muir spoke with TV Guide about those early years working at a local television station in his hometown of Syracuse, where his co-workers charted his growth on the wall and made fun of his changing voice.
Twitter turns 7 – It may be hard for some to believe given how ubiquitous Twitter has become in such a short period of time, but the social networking site celebrated its 7th birthday today. Over the past seven years, the social media site has allowed people to send their 140-character-or-less thoughts (the good, the bad and the totally inane) out to the universe. To celebrate the big day, CNN has compiled a list of unforgettable tweets from the site’s better known micro-bloggers.
What are you reading this week?
My Two Cents: How the Menendez story crumbled
Howard Kurtz on new revelations that cast doubt on the veracity of prostitution allegations against Senator Bob Menendez.
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