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NBC News chief Andy Lack opened a town hall with his staff this afternoon by blasting the on-air remarks Megyn Kelly made on her show Tuesday, in which she defended the use of blackface at Halloween. “I want to address just one” topic before taking questions, Lack told staff, diving into “the Megyn Kelly situation&#8221…

"Contrary to [Ronan] Farrow's claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards," the Comcast-owned network division said this morning in the latest blast after days of dust-ups over how the now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s investigation into claims of sexual harassment and…

President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on NBC News, ramping things up by suggesting a review of the network’s broadcast license given its handling of the Harvey Weinstein story. In a tweet this morning, Trump said the news division “is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct&#8221…

UPDATE, 9:54 PM: If NBC News chairman Andy Lack thought his detailed memo and fact sheet dropped today on what supposedly really went down with Ronan Farrow's scrapped probe into sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein was going to put a lid on the still simmering controversy, the…

President Donald Trump set aside his complaints about tech companies and foreign leaders, at least for the moment, to return to his comfort zone of blasting the TV news business. In three morning tweets (which followed a re-tweet of a Breitbart News post explaining Kanye West’s loyalty to Trump), the president said…

NBC News president Andy Lack sent a memo to the news division  following the NBCUniversal general counsel's "NBC News Workplace Investigation" findings and recommendations. The memo is a Clifffs Notes of  the long-ish report. Dear Colleagues, As you know, the NBCUniversal team has completed its investigation stemming…

NBC says it found no evidence indicating “that any NBC News or Today Show leadership, News HR or others in positions of authority in the News Division received any complaints about [Matt] Lauer's workplace behavior prior to November 27, 2017." The network this morning released results of its months-long internal probe…

In time for NBC Nightly News to include it in a report about a sexual harassment allegation against former host Tom Brokaw, NBC News chairman Andy Lack sent a memo to staff acknowledging the claims had been made. In his memo, Lack also promised results of his division’s investigation into the Matt Lauer scandal as…

Ending the post-Matt Lauer period of uncertainty, NBC has named Hoda Kotb co-anchor of Today, pairing with Savannah Guthrie. Kotb will continue her long-running teaming with Kathie Lee Gifford in the 10AM hour of the morning show. The move had been expected in industry circles. Kotb, a 20-year NBC News veteran, made a…

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack, under the gun after more women came forward claiming to have been sexually harassed and/or assaulted by Matt Lauer, issued another memo to staff on Friday, promising NBCUniversal Legal and Human Resources teams have begun a review of his biggest star’s “appalling behavior” and “what we can…

UPDATED with reporters’ CNN interview details: As NBC News chiefs Andy Lack and Noah Oppenheim performed triage Wednesday afternoon on a news operation in shock over the sudden firing of its BiggestFD talent Matt Lauer,  their work got seriously complicated when one of one two weeks-in-the-works reports about Lauer…

In his first town hall meeting since becoming Chairman of NBC News Group, Andy Lack laid out plans to greatly increase collaboration between the ratings-starved cable news network and NBC News as part of a strategy to focus on breaking news on the cable network and de-emphasize left-leaning opinion…