New NBCU CEO Jeff Shell Makes Tough Moves and Splits With Old Ways of Doing Business
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variety.comJeff Shell wants a break. The new NBCUniversal CEO, who took over the role from Steve Burke earlier this year, made one thing clear May 4 when he shook up his company’s senior ranks: He wants to cut ties to structures that might slow down the massive Comcast-backed media conglomerate as it’s trying to compete in a complex new world.
That means putting multiple controversies that have erupted at NBC News in the past — even as fresh word surfaces of a recent investigation of activity there by the New York attorney general’s office — and restructuring the company for the streaming wars that lie ahead.
Shell’s new NBCU puts all of the company’s news operations — NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC — together for the first time in several years under the
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