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ABC News boss Kim Godwin ‘badmouthing’ new boss was ‘last straw’: sources

ABC News president Kim Godwin resigned under pressure after she was found to have “bad-mouthed” her new boss, a move that echoed bad decisions including last week’s botched firing of weather forecaster Rob Marciano. It was the “final coup de grace” for the “collective body” of the United States, the Post reported. Godwin, the first […]

Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down: sources

ABC News President Kim Godwin announced Sunday night that she is resigning after facing intense scrutiny from company executives over her performance. And months after she was stripped of many of her powers, her associates confirmed to the Post. “I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin said in a staff memo obtained by […]

Layoffs at Byron Allen’s media company will hit 12% of workforce: sources

Job cuts at Byron Allen’s media company this week will affect about 300 employees, or 12% of the company’s 2,500-strong workforce, the Post reported. The layoffs at Allen Media, which operates the Weather Channel and owns 12 cable networks and 27 ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC television stations in 21 markets, are the first in […]

Rep. Cuellar of TX indicted by DOJ: sources

The Department of Justice on Friday indicted Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas on charges of conspiracy and bribery. Mr. Cuellar’s wife, Imelda, was also charged in an investigation into allegedly accepting $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-based energy company and a Mexican bank to promote the former Soviet republic’s interests in the United States. […]