Accuracy in Media

NBC News president Deborah Turness has been named the president of NBC News International, which is the network’s side of a new partnership with EuroNews, a pan-European satellite news service based in Lyon, France. Turness oversaw the firing of Meet the Press host David Gregory and the removal of Brian Williams as the Nightly News anchor after he […]

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke is betting that the hiring of former NBC News president Andy Lack can reverse the news division’s sliding fortunes and return it to the same level of success it achieved during Lack’s initial tenure. He will serve as the chairman for both NBC News and MSNBC. Lack’s previous stint at NBC […]

NBC News president Deborah Turness issued the following memo to the staff about Brian Williams on Friday. All, This has been a difficult few days for all of us at NBC News.   Yesterday, Brian and I spoke to the Nightly News team. And this morning at the Editorial Exchange, we both addressed the wider group. […]

NBC News President Deborah Turness announced late yesterday that Today show Senior VP and GM Jamie Horowitz had been dismissed, effective immediately, after less than three months at the network. Turness told the staff in a memo that she decided that Horowitz wasn’t the “right fit” for the show, and that she will oversee the show until […]

NBC News president Deborah Turness has ignited a firestorm by saying that the news division hadn’t kept up with the times and had “gone to sleep,” leading to its current ratings woes. Turness, who just celebrated her first year at the helm of NBC News, made her controversial remarks in an interview with Bill Carter of […]

The rumor mill surrounding the future of Meet The Press host David Gregory kicked into high gear this week with a report from Politico that Gregory will be replaced in the next few weeks by NBC News political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd. According to Mike Allen’s Playbook, sources have told him […]