Brian Williams has announced he is leaving NBC/MSNBC.
He is a 28-year veteran of NBC.
Breaking end-of-an-era news out of MSNBC: Brian Williams, a 28-year veteran of NBC, is leaving the company when his contract ends next month https://t.co/05Qp6CLPHu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 10, 2021
Anchorman Brian Williams, a 28-year veteran of NBC News and MSNBC, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company at the end of this year.
“This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another,” Williams said in a statement. “There are many things I want to do, and I’ll pop up again somewhere.”
Williams expressed deep gratitude to NBC, saying the network “is a part of me and always will be.”He is about to become a free agent for the first time in decades.
For the past five years, Williams has anchored “The 11th Hour,” an end-of-the-day newscast and political talk program. CNN Business reported in August that his contract was expiring in the next six months and that he wanted to move off the late-night hour.
Back in 2015, Brian Williams was suspended after exaggerating his role in a helicopter episode in Iraq.
Brian Williams, the embattled NBC news anchor whose credibility plummeted after he acknowledged exaggerating his role in a helicopter episode in Iraq, has been suspended for six months without pay, the network said on Tuesday night.
“This was wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in Brian’s position,†Deborah Turness, the president of NBC News, said in a memo. Lester Holt, who stepped in for Mr. Williams this week, will continue as the substitute, the network said.
The suspension culminated a rapid and startling fall for Mr. Williams, who at age 55 was not only the head of the No. 1 evening news show, but also one of NBC’s biggest stars, a frequent celebrity guest on “Saturday Night Live,†“30 Rock†and the late-night talk show circuit.
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But his embellishment of his helicopter journey and questions about his other reporting undermined the trust viewers placed in him. In the six days since he admitted his mistake, he was pilloried relentlessly online, with Twitter feeds mocking him and amateur truth squads investigating his past reporting. Almost none of his peers in the news business came to his support.
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