NBC News Names Kristen Welker, Peter Alexander Chief White House Correspondents

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Llamas, the ABC News anchor who leads the unit’s weekend “World News Tonight” broadcast and is its chief national affairs correspondent, is jumping from the Disney operation to NBC News.

After a month of non-stop news culminating with President Joe Biden's inauguration, NBC News this weekend officially moved in to its long-planned new Washington D.C. bureau and studios.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAs NBC News’ newly minted chief White House correspondents, Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander have the sort of job that rarely ends neatly for the week on Friday at 5 p.m.

After 55 years with the network, Tom Brokaw is retiring from NBC News. Brokaw, who anchored NBC Nightly News from 1983 to 2004, had been working as a political analyst and contributor to NBC News programming after stepping down from the network's flagship evening newscast.

Over and out. Tom Brokaw announced his retirement on Friday, January 22, after more than half a decade with NBC News.

Tom Brokaw is saying goodbye.

NEW YORK -- NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw said Friday that he is retiring from the network after 55 years.Brokaw, author of “The Greatest Generation,” was NBC's lead anchor at “Nightly News” and for big events for more than 20 years before giving way to Brian Williams in 2004.The 80-year-old newsman did documentaries and made other appearances for the networks after that, but he has fought cancer and his television appearances have been more sporadic.He said he will continue to be active in print

Tom Brokaw has announced that he will be retiring from NBC News after spending 55 years at the network.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Brokaw, the NBC News anchor who rose from an early stint at a station in Sioux City, Iowa to anchor three of the nation’s best-known TV-news programs – “Today,” “NBC Nightly News” and, for a short time, “Meet the Press,” is set to step down formally from NBC News, where he has worked since 1966.Brokaw’s time on air has dwindled in recent years, while he has served as a special correspondent for the NBCUniversal-owned outlet.More to come….

Tom Brokaw will retire from NBC News after 55 years with the network.

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ABC News is shuffling its Washington correspondents, tapping Cecilia Vega to be its new chief White House correspondent. Jonathan Karl, who currently leads ABC News' White House team, will continue as chief Washington correspondent and a co-anchor on ABC's Sunday public affairs show This Week, alongside George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News named Cecilia Vega and Jonathan Karl to new senior roles in its Washington operations, naming Vega the Disney news unit’s chief White House correspondent and Karl its chief Washington correspondent, as well as a co-anchor of the Sunday public-affairs program “This Week.”In a memo to staffers Tuesday, ABC News President James Goldston also named Mary Bruce a senior White House correspondent and MaryAlice Parks a weekend White House correspondent.

ABC News has announced a series of new assignments in Washington, with Cecilia Vega promoted to chief White House correspondent and Jonathan Karl launching an interview show for ABC News Live.

CBS News announced a series of changes to its lineup of assignments for correspondents in Washington, D.C.

Peter Lawwell's apology to supporters wasn't worth listening to beyond the opening 30 seconds. The Sky Sports pundit earned widespread acclaim from Hoops diehards for his passionate take on the club's ill-fated Dubai trip and the chief executive's role in a season to forget before their game with Hibs.

The reshuffling of network TV correspondents continues. Following new White House correspondents at NBC News and CNN, Fox News Channel says that Peter Doocy will join its White House team as a correspondent, after covering Joe Biden's presidential campaign for much of the past year.

Peter Doocy has been named White House correspondent at Fox News, joining Kristin Fisher on the beat.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel said Peter Doocy, a Washington-based correspondent at the cable-news network, would move to the White House beat, working alongside Kristin Fisher and filling a spot left vacant by John Roberts’ coming move to the anchor desk.Doocy, whose father, Steve Doocy, is the co-anchor of the network’s “Fox & Friends” morning program, spent the 2020 election cycle covering President-elect Joe Biden, on occasion eliciting criticism from the man slated to

Fox News Media has tapped Jason Klarman to be president of its Fox Nation streaming service. Klarman will also continue in his existing role of executive vp of marketing, and will continue to report to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.