Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJames Goldston, the president of ABC News, will leave the Walt Disney-backed unit at the end of March, the latest in a recent series of changes among top national news executives.“It’s a really tough decision,” Goldston said in a memo to staffers. “I’ve loved every day of my 17 years at ABC News, but in recent times I’ve always assumed that after this extraordinary election cycle, which we’ve covered at a full sprint for four years, it would be time for a change.
After a great deal of reflection over the last few months, I’m ready for a new adventure.”ABC News isn’t the industry’s largest division — CNN and NBC News are much larger — but under Goldston’s aegis, many of the network’s best-known programs have.
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