Brian Williams, the veteran anchor who became an integral part of MSNBC after a critical on-air gaffe in 2015 while behind the anchor desk at “NBC Nightly News” led to his removal from that landmark program, is parting ways with the cable-news outlet.
Nightly News” led to his removal from that landmark program, is parting ways with the cable-news outlet and striking out on his own.“After nearly three decades as an award-winning journalist and anchor at MSNBC and, Brian Williams has informed us he would like to take the coming months to spend time with his family,:” said Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, in a memo Tuesday night. “He will be signing off from The 11th Hour at the end of the year.
Williams is currently in the last months of a contract. He has since just before the 2016 presidential election hosted MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour,” the network’s final original show of the evening, and has often served as MSNBC’s anchor during big breaking events and election coverage.
Williams has been with NBCUniversal since 1993, and has been one of NBCU’s best-known news personnel, translating a gift for oratory and narration into appearances on late-night talk shows and even “Saturday Night Live.” He jettisoned many of those extracurricular activities after a “Nightly News” broadcast on January 30, 2015, when he repeated a claim he had made that a Chinook helicopter he was traveling in while on a reporting trip to Iraq was hit by enemy fire and forced down.
His diligence won out. In 2019, NBCUniversal had Williams take the stage at its annual “upfront” presentation to advertisers alongside news colleagues including Becky Quick, Rachel Maddow, Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Jose Diaz-Balart and Chuck Todd.MSNBC, then under the purview of Andy Lack, a veteran newsman and a Williams ally, aimed to give viewers a dose of late news that would help them wrap up the day and prepare for the next.
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