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Elena Nachmanoff, who has overseen talent recruitment at NBC News, plans to depart the network at the end of the year.

Meghan Rafferty has been named executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” succeeding Jenn Suozzo.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News is an enterprise built on 30-minute and 60-minute increments of TV journalism. Executives are starting to think about longer blocks of time.As the Toronto International Film Festival continues into this weekend, Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News, and Liz Cole, president of the still-young NBC News Studios, will be there.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJenn Suozzo, a veteran NBC News producer who has been working as the top producer at “NBC Nightly News,” will step away from the broadcast to pursue a new venture outside of NBC Universal.“Jenn’s been a fixture in our control rooms, covering virtually every breaking and major news event from the past two decades, including the Miracle on the Hudson, the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Michael Jackson’s death, tornado outbreaks, six presidential elections, and more,” said NBC News President Noah Oppenheim wrote in a memo to staffers Wednesday.Suozzo leaves as NBC’s evening news broadcast, led by Lester Holt, faces a formidable foe.

Jenn Suozzo is stepping down as executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

EXCLUSIVE: Lester Holt has been named managing editor of NBC Nightly News, which he has anchored since 2015.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSavannah Guthrie’s next one-hour special won’t appear on any of NBC News’ best known properties, which include “Today” and “NBC Nightly News.”  And yet, it may be of more critical importance to the NBCUniversal-owned news organization than any in-depth report she’s presented in recent months.Guthrie will today kick off a week-long focus by NBC News on the mental health of young people during the pandemic, the first of what NBC News President Noah Oppenheim says will be a year-long effort to provide deep reports – one a week — around specific topics across NBC News media properties.Reports from the first series, “Kids Under Pressure,” will air on “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” MSNBC’s daytime programs, NBC

With the Biden administration set to take charge in less than two weeks time, NBC News is making some changes in its Washington, D.C. bureau.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKristen Welker and Peter Alexander were named the new chief White House correspondents for NBC News, part of a rejiggering of some of the news unit’s personnel in the nation’s capital as many news outlets prepare to cover a new presidential administration.In a memo to staffers issued Friday, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim said Hallie Jackson, who has been the news division’s chief White House correspondent, would move to a role as senior Washington correspondent.

Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker will serve as chief White House correspondents for NBC News, as the network unveiled some of its plans for coverage of Joe Biden’s administration.

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Savannah Guthrie will be reporting from home when you turn on Today this week.

Savannah Guthrie is the latest member of the “Today” anchor team to stay at home as one of the nation’s best-known morning programs grapples with the spread of coronavirus across the U.S.

A staffer on the third hour of NBC's Today show has tested positive for the coronavirus. NBC News employees learned of their colleague's diagnosis late Sunday, and Monday, hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker took the morning off from Todayout of an abundance of caution as NBC News traces their contacts.

The Coronavirus pandemic is quickly sweeping through New York City and the Today show is the latest to be effected. One of the staffers in the third hour of the show has been diagnosed after having “mild symptoms.”

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