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The former anchor has worked at NBC News since 1999, when he joined the network as an evening newscaster.
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The news of his departure came just hours after news broke on Wednesday that Michael Dreeben, a longtime ABC News anchor who had been with NBC News since 1997, was leaving after four years, having spent more than 50 years at the network.
NBC News released a statement announcing that he had “served for nearly 30 years as a contributing voice on multi바카라ple network evening newscasts.”
“After four and a half years at ABC News, Mike, an award-winning journalist, is leaving for NBC News, where he will continue his network morning newscasts, the Today show and Sunday Night with Don Lemon. He has the great honor of serving as senior vice president of news, NBC News Entertainment.”
Dreeben joined ABC News in 1998. He later went to NBC and later worked as the morning anchor of the World in Focus on NBC in New York City.
His exit came two hours after reports surfaced that two top members of Trump’s transition team were among those abruptly let go after the firing of then-CNN chief Jeff Zucker, a move that also drew the ire of critics in the media who accused the network of turning a blind eye to the Trump campaign’s Russia allegations and failing to report the president’s alleged links to Russian intelligence.
After weeks of speculation about Zucker’s departure, it was announced Thursday afternoon that the news was not a firing, but rather was simply a “closing.”
The two were notified of their exit by Zucker’s successor, Deborah Turness, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Turness then proceeded to make a personnel decision, according to the source